CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -The LDP, led by new Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, maintained a comfortable majority despite losing seats.

Detailed explanation-2: -Japan is considered a constitutional monarchy with a system of civil law. Politics in Japan in the post-war period has largely been dominated by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which has been in power almost continuously since its foundation in 1955, a phenomenon known as the 1955 System.

Detailed explanation-3: -The ‘1955 system’ (55), also known as the one-and-a-half party system, is the dominant-party system in Japan that has existed since 1955, in which the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has successively held a majority government with major opposition parties incapable of forming a significant alternative.

Detailed explanation-4: -Electoral system Seventy-four members were elected by single non-transferable vote (SNTV) and first-past-the-post (FPTP) voting in 45 multi-member and single-member prefectural electoral districts.