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Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), led by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, achieved a historic two-thirds supermajority in a pivotal parliamentary election held across Japan on Sunday, February 8, 2026. This landslide victory was driven by Takaichi’s high personal popularity and a strategic early election call intended to consolidate power and advance an ultraconservative legislative agenda. By early Monday, results confirmed the LDP alone secured 316 seats in the 465-member lower house, the highest number since the party's inception in 1955. The electoral outcome significantly reshapes the Japanese political landscape, as the LDP’s new alliance with the Japan Innovation Party (JIP) brings their combined strength to 352 seats. This supermajority provides Takaichi with the legislative leverage required to bypass opposition hurdles in the more powerful lower house, even as the government lacks a majority in the upper house. Following the victory, Takaichi reaffirmed her commitment to making Japan "strong and prosperous" through a series of right-wing reforms focused on economic revitalisation and enhanced military capabilities. Takaichi’s policy roadmap includes a controversial shift away from Japan’s postwar pacifist principles. She has pledged to revise security and defense policies by December, seeking to bolster offensive military capabilities, lift bans on weapons exports, and increase defense spending in alignment with pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump. Domestically, she aims to implement stricter immigration controls, including caps on foreign residents and tighter requirements for foreign property owners, while addressing stagnant wages and rising living costs. The opposition suffered a crushing defeat, with the newly formed centrist alliance between the Constitutional Democratic Party and former LDP partner Komeito projected to lose half of their previous seats. Analysts suggest the opposition was too fragmented to challenge Takaichi’s “work, work, work” mantra, which resonated particularly well with younger voters. With no further elections scheduled until 2028, Takaichi now possesses a clear four-year mandate to pursue her transformative and often divisive vision for the nation.