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,

Japanese stock gains have been fueled by the "Takaichi trade" after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's landslide victory in the Lower House.

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.

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

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.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's call for a snap election had rattled markets and triggered a sharp selloff in Japanese government bonds.

Combined with a parliamentary election result that opens the door to more fiscal easing, the data sets the Bank of Japan up for another rate increase in the next few months. We continue to expect the BoJ to raise interest rates two more times in 2026, taking the benchmark rate to 1.25 per cent by the end of the year.

Japanese politics is certainly not immune from today’s world of disinformation and misinformation. As Sanae Takaichi, the Japanese prime minister, won a landslide majority in Sunday’s snap election,