The ruling Liberal Democratic Party won four of the five Diet by-elections on April 23, but rising opposition party Nippon Ishin (Japan Innovation Party) clinched the fifth for its first seat in Wakayama Prefecture.
Rising opposition party Nippon Ishin (Japan Innovation Party) snagged more than a fifth of ruling party supporters’ votes to secure a narrow victory in the Lower House by-election in Wakayama, according to exit polls by The Asahi Shimbun.
Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, headed by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, secured four of the five Diet seats up for grabs in by-elections on Sunday, boding well for him amid speculation that he might dissolve the lower house in the near future. The LDP won the Yamaguchi Nos. 2 and…