Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's election victory is handing Chinese leader Xi Jinping a dilemma. Engage with Japan's most popular post-war leader or continue a deep freeze with the US's top ally in... .
Japan’s prime minister Sanae Takaichi took the bold gamble of calling a general election after just two months in office but has been rewarded with a landslide victory ... Takaichi is an energy realist and is about as far from woke as you can get.
Sanae Takaichi, a staunch conservative who admires Margaret Thatcher, entrenched her leadership on Sunday four months after becoming Japan's first woman prime minister, but she has shown little appetite for framing it around gender ... .
Takaichi’s Liberal Democratic Party, or LDP, alone secured 316 seats by early Monday, comfortably surpassing a 261-seat absolute majority in the 465-member lower house, local media reported ....
In its best result since its founding in 1955, Ms. Takaichi’s conservative Liberal Democratic Party won a two-thirds majority in Sunday’s (February 8) snap lower house election ....
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said her priority would be to strengthen the US-Japan alliance. She had called the snap election in January to secure a stronger mandate in parliament ... .
Sanae Takaichi, made headlines on October 21, 2025, and became the first woman leader of Japan, a country known for its male-dominated political landscape ....