Polls suggest that Japan’s ruling party, the LDP, could lose its Lower House majority on Sunday for the first time since its brief stint out of power ended in 2012. As long as it was still able to form a majority government with its longstanding coalition partner Komeito, the economic outlook wouldn’t change significantly. But things would look different if the two parties together still fell short.
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