Takaichi led the ruling Liberal Democratic Party to a supermajority in the Lower House, securing 316 seats in Japan's largest election win since World War Two.

Japan’s prime minister won a huge election victory, sending geopolitical tremors rippling across Asia, and the world.

But Takaichi sees constitutional revision as a matter of national destiny, and her huge parliamentary majority as a unique opportunity to update a document suited to Japan’s future. “The constitution tells the story of the nation’s ideal form,” she said on Monday.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s governing party has secured a two-thirds supermajority in a parliamentary election.

Well, she pulled it off. Japan’s prime minister Sanae Takaichi took the bold gamble of calling a general election

Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s first female prime minister, harnessed her personal popularity and a shift to the right among voters to achieve a record election win.

The comprehensive electoral victory of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi over the weekend secured the Liberal Democratic Party a two-thirds majority in the Japanese Diet, a broad and inarguable mandate for her proposed nationalist revival.

It was a risky gamble to call a snap election. But now Japan’s Sanae Takaichi is basking in the strongest majority for a Japanese government since World War II.