Ms. Takaichi would be Japan’s first female prime minister in a country where women are drastically underrepresented at the ...

Sanae Takaichi, a hard-line conservative, was elected as leader by Japan’s embattled governing party, paving the way for her ...

The new leader will take the helm of the world’s fourth-largest economy at a time of unusual political instability, rising ...

Sanae Takaichi, an admirer of Britain’s Margaret Thatcher, was elected on Saturday as president of the ruling party, ...

Who is Sanae Takaichi? Japan’s ‘Iron Lady’ poised to be first woman prime minister - Sanae Takaichi is to succeed prime ...

In her campaign to become Japan's first female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi made a bold promise to narrow the country's ...

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

National Geographic Explorer-at-Large Bob Ballard revisits the Iron Bottom Sound—rediscovering vessels, and making new finds.

Sumo is more than a sport in Japan. It’s a sacred tradition, a 1,500-year-old spectacle steeped in Shinto ritual and ceremony. But at its heart lies a long-standing taboo: women are still barred from ...

Both parties risk losing the messaging war if the shutdown endures, these people in the Hamptons Roads area say. Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest ...