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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 6168164" data-attributes="member: 48469">[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/world/asia/japan-parliamentary-elections-exit-polls.html[/URL]7/20/25<h3>Japan’s Long-Dominant Party Suffers Election Defeat as Voters Swing Right</h3>The loss on Sunday left the Liberal Democrats a minority party in both houses of Parliament, while two new nationalist parties surged.&quot;Japan’s long-governing Liberal Democratic Party suffered a defeat in parliamentary elections on Sunday that saw new right-wing populist groups make gains, heralding what could be a tectonic shift in what has been one of the world’s most stable democracies.Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba vowed to stay on after his Liberal Democrats and their coalition partner lost 19 of their 66 seats that were up for re-election, depriving them of control of the less powerful Upper House. But he is facing calls to step down after the setback left the Liberal Democrats, who have led Japan for all but five of the last 70 years, a minority party in both chambers of the Diet, the country’s Parliament.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 6168164, member: 48469"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/world/asia/japan-parliamentary-elections-exit-polls.html[/URL] 7/20/25 [HEADING=2][SIZE=5]Japan’s Long-Dominant Party Suffers Election Defeat as Voters Swing Right[/SIZE][/HEADING] [I]The loss on Sunday left the Liberal Democrats a minority party in both houses of Parliament, while two new nationalist parties surged.[/I] "Japan’s long-governing Liberal Democratic Party suffered a defeat in parliamentary elections on Sunday that saw new right-wing populist groups make gains, heralding what could be a tectonic shift in what has been one of the world’s most stable democracies. Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba vowed to stay on after his Liberal Democrats and their coalition partner lost 19 of their 66 seats that were up for re-election, depriving them of control of the less powerful Upper House. But he is facing calls to step down after the setback left the Liberal Democrats, who have led Japan for all but five of the last 70 years, a minority party in both chambers of the Diet, the country’s Parliament." [/QUOTE]

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