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Political Polarization Comes to Japan as LDP Moves Right, Echoing Recent U.S. Republican Party History

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By Satoshi Ogawa

17:15 JST, October 17, 2025

It is said that things that happen in the United States will happen in Japan about 10 years later. Former economic security minister Sanae Takaichi’s unexpected election to the presidency of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party showed that the Japanese political scene has already become polarized. Fo...

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