After Japan’s Landslide Election: PM Takaichi’s Power, Policies and Limits

Tuesday, September 15, 2026 at 4:00 PM PT

UC San Diego · San Diego

In Japan’s 2026 general election, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi led the LDP to the largest single-party majority of the postwar era. The victory was buoyed both by Takaichi’s personal popularity and by deep disarray among the opposition parties. How much political and policy leverage does this manda