TOKYO - Japan's ruling coalition retained a comfortable majority in the House of Representatives following Sunday's general election, giving Prime Minister Fumio Kishida a public mandate to implement his COVID-19, economic and national security agenda.But Kishida's Liberal Democratic Party lost some seats and suffered a number of high-profile losses, with Akira Amari set to resign as the party's secretary general following his defeat to an opposition rival.The LDP and its smaller partner Komeito secured at least 261 of the 465 seats in the powerful chamber of parlia…READ FULL ARTICLE
