Japan: Takaichi propels LDP to supermajority, but will it last?

The Argentinian capitalist class, weighed down by high debts, low investment, and skyrocketing inflation, is turning to the only weapon it has left: counter-reforms that lengthen the working day, making work more precarious, and attacking the right to strike. Not taking this lying down, over one million protested across Argentina, fighting armed police in the streets.

The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which has dominated postwar Japanese politics, won the largest majority in Japanese history at the recent Lower House elections. In reality, this was not a vote for the LDP but for Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, who skillfully tapped into an anti-establishment mood that found no expression in Japan’s moribund opposition.