Japan's ruling LDP wins 2/3 lower house majority in boost for PM Takaichi

TOKYO - Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party won a two-thirds majority in the House of Representatives in Sunday's election, scoring a landslide victory that will give Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi a major boost in pushing ahead with her conservative policy agenda.

Crossing the two-thirds majority line of 310 seats in the 465-member lower house means the LDP, the first party to achieve the feat in postwar Japan, can move toward amending the Constitution and enact bills even if they are rejected by the House of Councillors, where the ruling coalition remains in a minority.