On the evening of Friday, January 9, the Yomiuri Shimbun issued a news flash for a report saying that Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has begun considering dissolving the Diet when the ordinary session opens on 23 January and calling a snap election for the first half of February (either the 8th or the 15th). Mainichi confirmed the Yomiuri report, saying that a snap election […] The post Trial balloon: Japan PM Takaichi contemplates Feb. snap election appeared first on Asia Times .