Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae has continued to consolidate her political position, increasing her chances of building a durable administration.
She has benefited greatly from high approval ratings, a result of both her personal popularity and support for her policies.
This in turn has enabled her to stabilize her government’s control of the Diet, both by enticing independents into the coalition to secure a lower house majority and easing doubts about the ability of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and Ishin no Kai to cooperate.
