TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s parliament elected ultraconservative Sanae Takaichi as the country’s first female prime minister Tuesday ...

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Sanae Takaichi is now officially Japan's first female prime minister. She's running a minority government; her policy plans ...

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Sanae Takaichi becomes Japan's first female PM, signaling a conservative shift. She aims to stabilize the government and ...

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History is made as a late political challenge by Japan’s ‘Iron Lady’ fails to prosper against Sanai Takaichi. Mr. Kirk, based ...

Hawkish on security policy, dovish on fiscal policy and traditionalist on social policy, she will move her country to the ...

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Staunch conservative Sanae Takaichi was elected Japan’s first female prime minister by parliament on Tuesday, in a landmark ...