Sanae Takaichi has styled herself on Margaret Thatcher - Jia Haocheng Few would have predicted that Japan would beat its longtime ally the United States in the race to elect the first female leader.

TOTTORI—Yoshiko Ishiba, the new first lady of Japan and the wife of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, has been a steadfast supporter of her husband’s political career for many years. Known for her bright ...

NARA--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 would set her on course to ...

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 ...

For the first time in its history, Japan's parliament has selected a woman, Takaichi Sanae of the Liberal Democratic Party, to be prime minister. In this sense, Ms Takaichi has already followed in the ...

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