A Japanese Lesson for Troubled Britain

Sanae Takaichi, Japan's prime minister and president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), puts pins marking the names of candidates who won lower house elections at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, on Feb. 8, 2026. Keisuke Hosojima/Kyodo News via AP

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The contrast between America’s great island allies on opposite ends of the world couldn’t be more drastic.