Motoko Shimada fondly recalls when a classmate at her public school in the western Japanese city of Nara, Sanae Takaichi, showed early signs of the leadership that ...

Her worldview rests on the conviction that Japan must reclaim a central role in shaping Asia’s strategic future.

(Bloomberg) -- Sanae Takaichi, the pro-stimulus conservative poised to become Japan’s first female prime minister, is an energetic nationalist with a soft spot for the hard-nosed politics of Iron Lady ...

Japan’s likely new prime minister is a wake-up call for America’s Indo-Pacific allies who have been lagging in shoring up their militaries, foreign policy experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation ...

Japan’s benchmark stock index, the Nikkei 225, hit a record after the leading conservative party elected Sanae Takaichi as its new leader. Nicknamed the ‘Iron Lady’ after she cited former British ...

Japan is set to have its first female prime minister as Sanae Takaichi has been elected leader of its long-governing party. Takaichi, 64, beat out her competitor Shinjiro Koizumi to become the leader ...

The Japanese Parliament on Tuesday elected ultraconservative Sanae Takaichi, a staunch conservative and former internal affairs minister, as the country's first female prime minister. This comes days ...

Yukitoshi Arai, former hairdresser of Sanae Takaichi, the newly elected leader of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), shows a mannequin head displaying a haircut he calls the “Sanae Cut”, a ...