Summary
Japan faces political instability after a gamble by Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba to call a snap election backfired with the ruling coalition failing to win a majority in parliament for the first time since 2009.
The Gazette
Ishiba -- a fan of trains, 1970s pop idols and making model ships and planes -- only last month took the helm of the LDP, which has governed Japan for almost all of the past seven decades.
Daily Tribune
Ishiba immediately ordered a snap election in hopes of shoring up support by using his outspoken, reformist image.
Voice Of America
Exit polls suggest Japan's main opposition party, Yoshihiko Noda's centrist Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, has made a huge increase to as many as 191 seats from 98.
Euronews
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