As a protege of Shinzo Abe, Sanae Takaichi is expected to scale bilateral ties much higher. Trade and investment shall grow. People-to-people contacts shall be scaled up, points out Dr Rajaram Panda.

Nina Li Coomes is a Japanese and American writer living in Chicago. When my sister and I were growing up in Nagoya, Japan, our mother would sometimes bring us to Tsuruma Park after school to let us ...

Japan’s historic moment with Sanae Takaichi has quickly given way to political turbulence. Her rise as the country’s first female leader of the Liberal Democratic Party was hailed as a breakthrough ...

Japan's ruling LDP has elected hardline conservative Sanae Takaichi as its new leader, potentially making her the nation's first female prime minister. Backed by powerful figures, Takaichi aims to ...

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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 ...

Even before she faces a parliament vote to become Japan’s first woman Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi has set a record as the first woman to lead Japan’s dominant Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). After ...

HONG KONG, Oct 6 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Sanae Takaichi is one step closer to unleashing her hardline conservative views on Japan. On Saturday, she was elected leader of the ruling Liberal ...

On October 4, 2025, Sanae Takaichi was elected as the new leader of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party. She is expected to be nominated as the country’s first female prime minister during the ...

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 Margaret ...