Japanese Elections: The Ghost of Constitutional Revision and Campaign Discourse

Noriko Manabe

doi:10.1017/S1557466016018404

Japanese Elections: The Ghost of Constitutional Revision and Campaign Discourse

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2025

Noriko Manabe

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While the high drama of the Brexit vote and the U.S. presidential election has grabbed international headlines, Japan has quietly completed an election that may also have far-reaching implications. In the elections for the Upper House of the Diet (Japan's parliament) on July 10, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its coalition partners won 162 seats, which, together with Diet seats not up for election and the seats of sympathetic but unaffiliated members, give the coalition a two-thirds majority in the Upper House. It already had a two-thirds majority in the Lower House.

Type: Research Article
Information: Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 14 , Issue 15 , August 2016 , e12

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1557466016018404 [Opens in a new window]
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