Treasurer Jim Chalmers says he is not concerned about the potential for China to retaliate after Australia signed a critical ...

Hardline conservative Sanae Takaichi pledged to build a “strong Japan” after being elected in parliamentary votes to become ...

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

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 heavy-metal-loving, motorcycle-driving Sanae Takaichi (高市 早苗) was elected the first female prime minister of Japan on ...

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

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

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 ...