Japan’s politics gets a rare dose of upheaval after snap election

Getty Images PM Shigeru Ishiba’s governing Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has lost its majority Japanese elections are normally steady and boring affairs – but this snap election was neither. The dramatic vote follows a political funding corruption scandal that was revealed last year, which implicated senior lawmakers and cabinet members from the ruling Liberal Democratic …

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