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Many of her positions are socially conservative in an often still deeply patriarchal nation. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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Sanae Takaichi is poised to become Japan's first female prime minister, but many of her positions are socially conservative in an often still deeply patriarchal nation. Takaichi, whose hero is ...

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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 ...