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Sanae Takaichi becomes Japan’s first female prime minister after parliamentary vote



Sanae Takaichi becomes Japan’s first female prime minister after parliamentary vote

Sanae Takaichi has become Japan’s first female prime minister.
Japan’s parliament has voted in the ultraconservative hardliner, after her party signed a last-minute coalition deal with another right-wing party.
Takaichi replaces Shigeru Ishiba, who resigned after his coalition lost parliamentary elections in July.
It’s seen as a shift to the right, in a country worried about rising prices, a sluggish economy and immigration.

Stephen Nagy, a visiting fellow at the Japan Institute of International Affairs, explains how he thinks Takaichi might run the office.

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35 Comments

  14. @yoshimansxl on

    Birthrate is only going to go down and down. Median age in Japan is around 50 now. Incomes have been stagnant for decades. They really do not want to address the causes eh?

  15. @alfianmelodic on

    Well, congratulations on having your first female leader. In my country, we already did this back in 2001.
    we’re still a developing country with growing economy but our people are not afraid of change.

    Greetings from Indonesia 😊

  17. @allegorieundsymbol on

    Takaichi’s administration is a far-right authoritarianism, fascism and despotism government. She has already spread out lies, demagogues, hates and discriminations and put huge pressure on media, freedom of speech. She keeps close relationship with far-right cult organizations like Unification Church. She obviously hold neoliberalism thought, so she will work for only herself and riches, while cutting off healthcare and reducing money for education. That is to say, she and her coalition government will privatize Japanese politics. And also, they will intervene with the education and revise the history in complying with the ideology of her, her coalition parties and far-right cult organizations which strongly support her. They do no longer hide their ambition to make Japan go back to the Imperial Japan before WW2. So Japanese civilization will certainly recede significantly.

  18. @SeaJay_Oceans on

    Praise God ! I hope Sanae Takaichi will pass FAMILY FIRST policies that encourage all Japanese Women to raise families and empower Japanese Men to have families of 4 to 12 children. Japan without Japanese people would just be a rock floating in the sea… PLEASE Grow more Japanese people ! 🙂

  19. @BKadorer on

    This expert appears to be overestimating Ms Takaichi. She has advocated for the restoration of patriarchy and opposed separate surnames for married couples, despite this being the wish of the majority of Japanese women. On foreign policy, she is staunchly anti-China, inheriting the Abe administration's revisionist ideology. Only recently, she deliberately highlighted non-existent issues concerning foreign tourists, spreading fake information. I feel she is not only far-right but also populist. The expert's opinion does not accurately reflect these aspects of her stance.

  21. @giuliomats on

    And how come she has retained her own surname and not taken that of her freaking husband? Because she is a hardline against women retaining their own surnames, why the heck she didn't do it with her own BS surname?? 🤔🧐

  31. @Med-x4k9f on

    Japanese politics are pretty polarised these days. Some conservative supporters who once supported the LDP have left and become very radical. People say she’s ultraconservative and though maybe she is in a broader definition, imo it's a far better option than letting alt-right populists go rampant.