Japan government loses Upper house majority • FRANCE 24 English

Japan's ruling coalition is poised to lose its majority in the upper house, exit polls showed after Sunday's election, weakening Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's grip on power and heralding political turmoil as a tariff deadline with the United States looms. France24 correspondent in Tokyo, Gavin Blair, reports.
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