Japanese election results
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
Pursuing Other Plans that Don’t Involve America
July 21, 2025
(182) Much has changed in the world during the first half of Donald Trump’s second non-consecutive term as president of the United States. As the August 1st tariff hike deadline looms closer, several sets of frenzied efforts to reach trade deals with the U.S. continue, but countries on a different level are forging closer ties […] More
Overnight Dollar Movements Consistent with Expectation that Trump Wins Back the Presidency
October 28, 2024
The U.S. currency slipped 0.3% against the euro and sterling and 0.2% relative to the Swiss franc and New Zealand dollar. U.S. Republican presidential candidate Trump favors a weaker dollar to trim the trade deficit. One currency that instead fell 0.5% overnight against the dollar was the Mexican peso. Mexico would take a lot of […] More
Sharply Weaker Yen
July 11, 2016
The yen lost 2.1% against the dollar, notching its biggest daily decline in 11-1/2 weeks. There has not been reported intervention, but Sunday’s upper house parliamentary election, won strongly by Prime Minister Abe’s LDP Party, clears the way for more aggressive macroeconomic stimulus there. Half of the 242 seats in Japan’s House of Councillors were […] More
LDP-Komeito Coalition Secures Upper House Japanese Parliamentary Election
July 22, 2013
Prime Minister Abe’s party, the Liberal Democrats, will hold 115 of the 242 upper chamber seats. The LDP’s junior partner, New Komeito, will hold 20 seats. Thus the ruling coalition now controls a comfortable majority of 135 seats, up from 102 seats in the previous parliament. The coalition will control key committees. This marks the […] More
Transformative Election Results in Japan
December 17, 2012
Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party captured 294 seats in the lower house of parliament, a massive gain from the 119 seats it held previously. Along with New Komeito’s 31-seat total, the incoming coalition will control a “supermajority” of 325 seats, more than 2/3rds of the 480 seats in that legislative chamber, and that total will enable […] More
