Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at the results of Japan’s snap parliamentary elections, Hong Kong’s sentencing of pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai, and anti-Israel protests across Australia. Big Risk, Bigger Reward Just 110 days after becoming Japan’s first female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi took a massive risk: holding snap parliamentary elections in the hopes of boosting the standing of her minority Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). Her gamble worked. On Sunday, the LDP won a rare supermajority, securing 316 seats (up from 198) in the parliament’s 465-member lower house. This was the biggest landslide election victory in the country’s...
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