00:00Japanese stocks jumped to record peaks while bonds slid after Prime Minister
00:06Sanai Takaichi scored a landslide win in Sunday's snap election.
00:12The Nikki 225 share average rallied 2.6 percent to an unprecedented 55,681.11 shortly after
00:21markets opened.
00:23Japan's first female leader delivered 316 seats of the 465 in Parliament's lower
00:29house for her Liberal Democratic Party, its best ever result.
00:34The victory paves the way for tax cuts that have spooked financial markets and military
00:39spending aimed at countering China.
00:41Meanwhile, a Japanese voter who spoke to Reuters voiced concern about the ruling coalition
00:47winning too much.
00:59The second one is the first one.
01:04The second one is the second one.
01:06The second one is the second one.
01:08I think the government has been very much reduced, so the things that the business is easy to do is to make things easier.
01:18And if we don't have any opinions, we will not be able to make any decisions.
01:24We will not be able to make any decisions, so we will not be able to make any decisions.
01:33With coalition partner, the Japan Innovation Party, known as Isshin,
01:37Takahichi now has a supermajority of two-thirds of seats.
01:42This means she can override the upper chamber, which she does not control,
01:46easing her legislative agenda.
01:48The LDP, which has ruled for almost all of Japan's post-war history,
01:53had lost control of both houses in elections over the past 15 months under Takahichi's predecessor.
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