New Overnight Developments Abroad - Daily Update
Weaker Dollar and Huge Election Victory for Japanese PM Takaichi’s LDP Party
February 9, 2026
(153) In lower house Japanese parliamentary elections yesterday, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party won 316 of 465 contested seats, up from 198 in the previous election and exceeding their prior record high of 300 in the 1986 election. Yesterday’s landslide win also surpasses the two-thirds threshold that will prevent the lower house from stopping any […] More
