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LDP looks set to secure 316 seats in Japan's 500-member house, marking its best result since its founding in 1955. Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has promised to cut taxes and keep her cabinet intact as she celebrated her Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP) landslide victory in Sunday's general election. Takaichi's pledge on Monday came as projections by the NHK broadcaster showed the conservative LDP securing 316 seats in the 500-member National Assembly and winning a historic two-thirds majority in the lower house.

Conservative hard-liner Takaichi is the former internal affairs minister of Japan. She holds hawkish views on China, and has also visited the controversial Yasukuni Shrine, which memorializes Japan's war dead.