Japan’s LDP Wins Four of Five Seats as Election Talk Simmers
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Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s ruling party eked out wins in four of five Japanese by-elections held Sunday, as speculation simmers over whether he will call an early general election.
The premier’s Liberal Democratic Party kept the three seats it previously held of the five, including the constituency in the southwestern prefecture of Yamaguchi vacated when former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated last year. It also picked up a fourth, an upper house seat in Oita Prefecture.