Japan's Conservative LDP Achieves Historic Supermajority Landslide Victory

Japan's conservative LDP party, led by Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae, obtained a historic landslide electoral victory on Sunday, securing a two-thirds supermajority in the lower house of the Parliament.

LDP saw its best electoral performance in the party's entire history by claiming 316 seats out of the parliament's 465 — up from the 198 it had before the election, granting the ruling conservatives a two-thirds supermajority mandate that allows it to pass bills rejected by the upper house among propose constitutional amendments, among several other prerogatives.