Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi hopes for big win in national elections
Published on: Feb. 9, 2026, 4:22 a.m. | Source: Daily Excelsior
TOKYO, Feb 8: Polls opened on Sunday in parliamentary elections that Japan’s popular Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi hopes will give her struggling party a big enough win to push through an ambitious conservative political agenda. Takaichi is hugely popular, but the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, which has governed Japan for most of the last seven decades, has struggled with funding and religious scandals. She called Sunday’s snap elections only after three months in office, hoping to turn that around before […]
