OPINION_ Japan’s election result is a geopolitical earthquake and a ‘very big deal’ for Australia (Peter Hartcher - SYDNEY MORNING HERALD)

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Japan’s election result is a geopolitical earthquake and a ‘very big deal’ for Australia

Peter Hartcher
Political and international editor
February 10, 2026 — 5:00am


A geopolitical earthquake has struck the north-west Pacific. Its name is Takaichi. Japan’s first female prime minister has just triumphed in a general election in which she won more seats than any prime minister since World War II, either in proportional terms or absolute numbers.

Sanae Takaichi has won a so-called super-majority of Japan’s lower house, or two-thirds majority, which gives her power to overrule the upper, to make law with a free hand, to launch the process towards a rewriting of Japan’s pacifist Constitution if she so chooses. And she did it almost single-handedly.

Illustration by Dionne Gain

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READ MORE: https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/japan-s-election-result-is-a-geopolitical-earthquake-and-a-very-big-deal-for-australia-20260209-p5o0pw.html

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