To the international community’s surprise, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi won a landslide victory in her high-stakes gamble of a snap election, successfully translating her immense popularity into a record-breaking majority for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in the lower house of Japan’s parliament—the largest seat total since the party’s inception in 1955. Following this outright victory, Takaichi now possesses a strong mandate and an unusual degree of latitude t