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Following a short hiatus after the party was all but declared dead — with many proclaiming the start of a new era ー the LDP rose from the ashes to win back the domineering position it had long held.googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1499653692894-0'); });

But Sunday’s triumph is less a master stroke of the LDP than a success of its iundisputable architect: Takaichi herself.

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