WASHINGTON -- The devastating loss by Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's ruling coalition in Sunday's general election has put U.S. officials -- in the White House, the State Department and the intelligence community -- on the back foot, sending them scrambling to assess the potential harm to a security alliance that had been seen as being in a golden era.
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