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Strength in Numbers
Newsweek US
|February 27 - March 6, 2026
When Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi dissolved parliament just three months into her premiership and called a snap election in January, it was widely seen as a high-risk gamble. Her Liberal Democratic Party had been weakened by scandal, coalition fractures and years of voter fatigue. A loss would almost certainly have ended her leadership. Instead, the bet produced one of the most decisive mandates in modern Japanese politics.
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TURNING POINT Officials count ballots at a center in Tokyo in early February, before Takaichi (inset) was handed a supermajority, setting the course for Japan's next phase of government.
This story is from the February 27 - March 6, 2026 edition of Newsweek US.
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