Sanae Takaichi is on track to become Japan's first female prime minister after her party secured a crucial coalition partner

Takaichi replaces Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, ending a three-month political vacuum and wrangling since the Liberal Democratic Party’s disastrous election loss in July.View on euronews

Japan's first female prime minister, PM Sanae Takaichi, plans accelerated military expansion as Trump visit approaches. Historic shift from pacifist defense policy.

Ms Takaichi, an ultra-conservative who on Tuesday became Japan’s first female prime minister, had promised to model her government’s gender balance on countries such as Iceland and Finland, where women make up roughly half of all cabinet members.

Takaichi inherits a country weighed down by economic stagnation, a deepening demographic crisis, political fragmentation, and the looming challenge of managing relations with an unpredictable ally—US