Japan’s Politics Gets a Rare Dose of Upheaval After Snap Election

Posted on the 28 October 2024 by Thiruvenkatam Chinnagounder @tipsclear

Getty Images PM Shigeru Ishiba’s governing Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has lost its majority Japanese elections are normally steady and boring affairs – but this snap election was neither. The dramatic vote follows a political funding corruption scandal that was revealed last year, which implicated senior lawmakers and cabinet members from the ruling Liberal Democratic …

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