Japan

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi won a landslide in Japan’s snap lower-house election, securing a two‑thirds supermajority that gives her broad power to push an expansive fiscal and security agenda.

Will Jennings, Matthew Søberg Shugart, Brigid Laffan, Ian Bremmer, Lars P. Feld and 7 more

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Japan's Nikkei 225 rose to a record high after Sanae Takaichi's decisive victory, as investors hoped for stimulus while bond and currency traders remained skeptical.

Nouriel Roubini, Lars P. Feld, Alicia Garcı́a-Herrero, Fabián Muniesa, Mohamed A. El‐Erian and 4 more

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party under Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi won more than two-thirds of the 465-seat lower house, a supermajority that makes revision of the pacifist constitution more likely.

Lars P. Feld, Ian Bremmer, Daniel P. Aldrich, Fabián Muniesa, Prakash Kashwan and 3 more