Having won the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s (LDP) leadership election on October 4, Sanae Takaichi’s road to becoming ...

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

The Japanese Diet elected Takaichi Sanae, the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), to the country’s highest office.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average hit a record. It rose 218 points, or 0.5%, on Tuesday and topped its prior all-time high, ...

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

Hardline conservative Sanae Takaichi was chosen as Japan's first female prime minister on Tuesday, shattering the political ...

The yen eased to a one-week low on Tuesday after hardline conservative Sanae Takaichi was elected as Japan's prime minister, ...

Japan’s staunchly conservative former interior minister, Sanae Takaichi, was elected by parliament on Tuesday as the country’s first female prime minister.The 64-year-old succeeds the comparatively ...

Sanae Takaichi has become Japan's first female prime minister, a significant milestone in the country's male-dominated ...

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

The LDP found a new coalition partner, but Prime Minister Takaichi is still short of a majority in the lower house.

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