According to preliminary results of Sunday's elections in Japan, the ruling coalition lost the majority.
According to the BBC, the opposition generally gets more seats in the lower house of parliament. The fate of the ruling coalition will be decided in the negotiations.
According to official data, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's alliance of Liberal Democratic and Komeito parties gets 215 seats out of the 233 needed for a majority, and opposition parties get 250 seats. Thus, these results could end the Liberal Democrats' one-man rule.
The last time the Liberal Democrats lost their majority was in 2009.
