CSM analysis: ‘Early elections in Japan’

"On February 8, the nipponese went to the polls to elect their representatives to the home of Lower Parliament, although the last election was held only in October 2025. Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae unexpectedly dissolved the parliament at the end of January 2026, after only 3 months of regulation to get a clear answer to whether the nipponese wanted it in that position. She obtained an unappealed triumph and most in parliament. This makes it impossible to stabilise and keep the political course of the current government." - Dr Beata Bochorodycz, a polytolist and nipponese associate of the Asian Observatory at CSM, prof. of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, writes in the analysis of CSM.

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