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Elections win a mandate for 'important' policy shifts: Japanese Premier Takaichi

Elections win a mandate for 'important' policy shifts: Japanese Premier Takaichi

Sanae Takaichi says her Liberal Democratic Party also seeking to amend war-renouncing constitution

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Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's party becomes first to win over 310 seats in 465-member lower house in postwar Japan

Trump congratulates Japan's Takaichi on her party’s election win
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Trump congratulates Japan's Takaichi on her party’s election win

US president says prime minister’s ‘bold and wise decision’ to call election delivered two-thirds supermajority, the first since World War II