Japan’s Iron Lady: Poised To Steer Japan’s Future To Greater Height – Analysis

In the snap poll held in Japan on 8 February for the Lower House of Diet, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and her Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) scored a landslide victory. This win is the biggest supermajority in Japan’s post-War history. The centrist leader Yoshihiko Noda, a former Prime Minister, humbly accepted the defeat and said it was worthy of “a thousand deaths”. The party vaulted from 198 seats before the election to more than 300, and finally secured 316 seats out of a total of 465 Lower House seats.