Japan’s prime minister looks to implement her agenda with big election win
by editors@theworld.org (Matthew Bell) from The World: Latest Stories on (#73EVR)
Sanae Takaichi was taking a huge risk when she called for a snap election just 110 days into her first term as prime minister. Today, she won big. Her struggling political party - the Liberal Democratic Party - captured a two-thirds supermajority in the lower house of Japan's parliament. Takaichi is promising to push ahead on her conservative agenda. The World's Matthew Bell reports.