{"id":76302,"date":"2026-02-09T18:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T09:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/09\/japanese-shares-hit-record-high-as-sanae-takaichi-wins-landslide-election-victory"},"modified":"2026-02-09T18:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T09:29:13","slug":"japanese-shares-hit-record-high-as-sanae-takaichi-wins-landslide-election-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76302","title":{"rendered":"Japanese shares hit record high as Sanae Takaichi wins landslide election victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister\u2019s Liberal Democratic party to be pressed on promised tax cuts and fiscal stimulus plans<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2026\/feb\/09\/japan-election-nikkei-record-high-yen-strengthens-takaichi-election-win-keir-starmer-pound-bonds-news-updates\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Japan\u2019s stock market has hit a record high after Sanae Takaichi\u2019s Liberal Democratic party (LDP) secured <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/08\/japan-election-conservatives-victory-sanae-takaichi\">a comprehensive victory in Sunday\u2019s election<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The LDP won 316 of the 465 seats in the country\u2019s lower house \u2013 the first time a single party has secured two-thirds of the chamber since the establishment of Japan\u2019s parliament in 1947.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/09\/japanese-shares-hit-record-high-as-sanae-takaichi-wins-landslide-election-victory\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister\u2019s Liberal Democratic party to be pressed on promised tax cuts and fiscal stimulus plansBusiness live \u2013 latest updatesJapan\u2019s stock market has hit a record high after Sanae Takaichi\u2019s Liberal Democratic party (LDP) secured a comprehensive&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,437,558,88,600,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-economics","category-global-economy","category-japan","category-stock-markets","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76303,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76302\/revisions\/76303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}