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(Tamayo Marukawa was one of LDP candidates who won their Lower House races. In an earlier version of this article, her surname name was misspelled as “Maruyama.”) Heavyweight Centrist Candidates Lose Constituency Races Tokyo, Feb. 9 (Jiji Press)–Heavyweight candidates from the opposition

Tokyo, Feb. 9 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party secured a historic landslide victory in Sunday’s House of Representatives election, winning 316 seats to occupy a standalone two-thirds majority of the 465 seats in the all-important lower chamber of parliament. This marked

Tokyo, Feb. 9 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average briefly soared more than 3,000 points to top 57,000 for the first time ever in early trading on Monday, as a wide range of issues attracted buying after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s

Tokyo, Feb. 9 (Jiji Press)–Sake breweries across Japan are struggling to secure funds to purchase “sakamai,” rice used for sake production, as its price has risen sharply. Prices of sake rice have been soaring in line with the steep rise in the

Nagasaki, Feb. 9 (Jiji Press)–Ken Hirata, a 58-year-old former vice governor of Nagasaki Prefecture, has won the gubernatorial election in the southwestern Japan prefecture, defeating incumbent Kengo Oishi and another candidate. Voter turnout in Sunday’s election was 57.27 pct, up from 47.83

Tokyo, Feb. 9 (Jiji Press)–Members of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party expressed relief that voters entrusted Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s administration with a mandate, as the party won more than 300 seats in Sunday’s election for the 465-seat House of Representatives. Although

Tokyo, Feb. 9 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has said she will ask the United States to participate in the deep-sea mining of rare earths near Minamitorishima, a remote island in the Pacific, during a Japan-U.S. summit slated for next month.

Tokyo, Feb. 9 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi indicated Sunday that she will work to win the understanding of the international community, including the United States, over her possible visit to the war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. “We will first gain

Tokyo, Feb. 9 (Jiji Press)–Following is a party-by-party breakdown of seats won in Sunday’s election for the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of Japan’s parliament, as of 3 a.m. Monday, with figures in parentheses showing the number of seats won in

Tokyo, Feb. 9 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party is seen winning over 310 seats in the House of Representatives in Sunday’s election, controlling two-thirds of the all-important lower chamber of parliament. The number, a record high for the LDP, set up