Japan’s snap election shaken by chaos and political turmoil

Japan’s snap election shaken by chaos and political turmoil

“Japanese elections are normally steady and boring affairs. This snap election was anything but. The dramatic vote follows a political funding corruption scandal, revealed last year, which implicated senior lawmakers from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and cabinet members, tarnishing the party’s image and angering the public. The electorate made their anger felt in … Read more