Less than a year after the ruling Democratic Party of Japan came into government, it has failed to win a majority in the upper-house elections, held early this month.
Commentators have laid the blame on economic instability. Japan’s public debt is nearly twice its GDP — and with an economy that size, who can afford to bail it out?
Graphic by Jez Burrows
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