Fumio Kishida s continuation as prime minister and LDP president after the G7 will depend on his political management of factions some of which were bruised in the elections
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.