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Japan’s Takaichi secures supermajority in landslide election victory

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi ‘s governing party secured a two-thirds supermajority in parliamentary elections, Japanese media reported, citing preliminary results. The landslide victory was due, in large part, to the extraordinary popularity of Japan’s first female prime minister, and allows her to pursue a significant conservative shift in Japan’s security, immigration and other policies.

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