‘Sana-mania’ grips Japan as ultra-conservative Takaichi expected to secure election landslide | Japan

Just eight months ago, Japan’s ruling party appeared to have reached the edge of the electoral abyss. It had lost a parliamentary majority for the second time in 15 months; its MPs were implicated in a long-running slush fund scandal; the then prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba, was the target of factional plotting. But as voters … Read more