Ruling party's election victory gives mandate for policy shifts: Japan PM

TOKYO - Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Monday that the ruling bloc's landslide victory in the House of Representatives election gives her government a public mandate for "important policy shifts."

Takaichi told a press conference a day after the election that Japan needs to depart from its "excessive fiscal austerity" by implementing her "responsible yet aggressive" fiscal policies, and that the ruling camp led by the Liberal Democratic Party will continue to seek cooperation from opposition parties as it remains in a minority in the House of Councillors.