<img src="https://images.aposto.com/2024/9/1/1730118412653.png" style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border-style: none; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box;" ratio="1.51" width="550" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">Japanese PM Shigeru Ishiba speaks next to LDP lawmakers during a press conference a day after Japan's lower house election, at the party's headquarters in Tokyo October 28, 2024 | REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/Pool <span fr-original-class="customBullet" fr-original-style="font-size: 24px; line-height: 12px; vertical-align: middle; display: inline-block;" style="font-size: 24px; line-height: 12px; vertical-align: middle; display: inline-block; box-sizing: border-box;">•&nbsp;&nbsp; That wasn't the plan:&nbsp;Japans's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which recently went through a leadership change after decreasing popularity, lost its parliamentary majority in the powerful lower house for the first time in 15 years.<ul fr-original-style="padding-inline-start: 20px;" style="padding-inline-start: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Zoom out:&nbsp;The result is a major blow to freshly minted Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who called for snap elections to renew public trust in his party. </li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Statement:&nbsp;Ishiba said that voters had delivered an “extremely harsh judgement” his party must take “seriously and solemnly,” but also indicated he would not step down as PM: “I myself will also go back to the start and promote severe internal reforms within the party and further drastic reforms regarding the political situation.”</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Highlight:&nbsp;LDP has governed Japan almost continuously since 1955.</li></ul>

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