Sanae Takaichi was taking a huge risk when she called for a snap election just 110 days into her first term as prime minister. Today, she won big. Her struggling political party — the Liberal Democratic Party — captured a two-thirds supermajority in the lower house of Japan’s parliament. Takaichi is promising to push ahead on her conservative agenda. The World’s Matthew Bell reports.
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