Japan has been battling sluggish growth, mounting public debt and a rapidly ageing workforce.

The conservative Prime Minister’s gamble seems to have paid off.

Japan's markets are set to scale new records as the Nikkei looks set to continue riding the "Takaichi trade."

By Rocky Swift and Tom Westbrook TOKYO, Feb 9 (Reuters) - The biggest landslide win in postwar history has given Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi a huge mandate to revitalise the economy, but investors say she has little room to run up deficits or pressure will be quickly back on bonds and the yen.

Heavy snowfall in Japan forced some polling places to close early, fueling concerns about the impact to voter turnout, reported The New York Times. Yoshihiko Noda, a leader of the CRA, raised concerns about peoples' ability to vote, warning that "not being able to do so is a denial of democracy."

T AKAICHI SANAE gambled her position as Japan’s prime minister by calling a snap election. Her bet has paid off. The ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) triumphed on February

LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — On a frosty night in the Italian Alps, the queen of big air, Anna Gasser, bid adieu to her favorite Olympic event. She left without a medal, but that didn't make it all bad. The snowboarders who won them — led by the new queen,

Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Sunday won a lower-house parliamentary supermajority at snap elections that she had called three weeks ago. The Liberal Democratic Party now controls 316 of 465 seats in parliament, giving the prime minister the ability to pass legislation unimpeded.

Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s first female prime minister, harnessed her personal popularity and a shift to the right among voters to achieve a record election win.

Tokyo's Nikkei 225 share index has jumped 4.5% after Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s governing party secured a two-thirds supermajority in a parliamentary election.