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World News - Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi wins supermajority in election - Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's snap election won her Liberal Democratic Party a two-thirds majority in parliament's lower house.
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