The hardline conservative emulated her hero Margaret Thatcher after a whirlwind few weeks of political wrangling.

Japan ranks low in gender equality among developed nations. The first woman to lead the country is an ultraconservative who ...

Sanae Takaichi is the first woman chosen to serve as Japan's prime minister. She favors a strong military, a strong economy — ...

Japan's parliament elected ultraconservative politician Sanae Takaichi as the country's first female prime minister, just ...

Share prices have soared in Japan recently on hopes that conservative lawmaker Sanae Takaichi, who was chosen Tuesday to be ...

Sanae Takaichi becomes Japan's first female prime minister, citing Margaret Thatcher as inspiration while promising to ...

Here’s how the LDP leader remade Japan’s ruling coalition to become the country’s first female Prime Minister.

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

Takaichi replaces Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, ending a three-month political vacuum and wrangling since the Liberal ...