Japan’s ruling party elects Sanae Takaichi as new leader, likely to become first female PM

Sanae Takaichi, the newly elected and staunchly conservative head of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, is expected to become Japan’s first woman prime minister. She won the leadership of Japan’s ruling party on Saturday (October 4). James Simms, a journalist based in Tokyo, tells us more.
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49 Comments

  1. 英語メディアの中では比較的正確にレポートしている。他の英語メディアは、BBCを含めてバイアスがひどかった。なにしろ、レポーター自身が自らの政治的立場をむき出しにし高市を右翼だと批判するのだから。

  2. Sanae Takaichi's election appears to reflect the will of the people of Japan toward a country that has become a liberal one. She wasn't chosen because she's a woman.

  3. No matter who's the PM of Japan/Korea, he or she needs to get the approval of the US's President with regard to what to eat for breakfast, lunch & dinner !

  4. 日本国民は岸田政権からの過去4年で度重なる増税と物価高騰に賃金上昇が追いつかず疲弊しています。国民は消費税減税を訴えましたが、石破政権は聞き入れませんでした。
    これらの問題に無策の石破政権に対し、大規模解任デモが何度も行われましたが、腐敗した国内メディアはどこも報道しませんでした。これらがSNSに投稿されると、政府はSNSには誤情報があると言い出し、政府の権限で削除出来る様にすると言い始めました。
    日本国民はこれに大きな不満を持ち、石破内閣は退陣に追い込まれ、候補者で唯一積極財政派の高市総裁が誕生しました。

  5. Far behind? Yeah, we are far behind for being degenerated low trust society just like European and North American countries, thankfully.
    Be careful not to get disillusioned that western barbarians living in failed states are superior to us for any means.

  6. Takaichi's election as president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) was largely a reaction to the current administration's pronounced shift to the left. While the rising Sanseitō is often labeled as far-right, this characterization overlooks a deeper issue: the LDP itself has veered toward liberal-left positions, straying from its traditional conservative roots. As a result, many citizens feel neglected, and their dissatisfaction has translated into growing support for Sanseitō. In truth, Sanseitō is neither far-right nor extreme—it represents a commonsense conservatism grounded in the everyday perspectives of ordinary people.

  7. Kishida and Ishiba had been making Japan as the piero in the gobal theater, it was possible that Koizumi might do the same. Definetaly Takaichi will bring Japan back to the ordinal member of the global theater.

  8. The present Government and industry want cheap labours that means keeping wages very low. There are plenty of unemployed people in Japan, yet companies want cheap immigrants. This is not good for the Japanese economy.
    Those immigrants are not skilled either with inadequately. We cannot keep Japanese standards for products. We have big problems with immigrants without morals committed crimes whose rates are much higher than the Japanese.

  9. Honestly, I have no idea. The party hasn’t changed, and she hasn’t done anything as president yet. All we can do is keep working hard and uphold the Japanese spirit to make our country stronger.

  10. Please don't force the EU's failed immigration policies on Japan. We have chosen someone who can tackle immigration issues from a Japanese perspective.

  11. 約束守らない政治資金規正法違反の西村康稔と約束守らない茂木敏充を高市が閣僚入りさせたら自民党は解党に成る~日本遺族会会員~中国江蘇省無錫市名誉市民~尾形大作

  12. Takaichi Sanae of LDP
    wrote about her nasty
    experience in her own book that she had sex with many young men as a play when she was young.
    She has no morality
    nor dignity.
    She is really suitable
    for a politician of beautiful Japan.

  13. 今回の選挙は男とか女とか関係ないし、移民問題は表を集めるための客寄せパンダ的な政策と言ってるけど、実際に問題が起こってるからそれを争点にあげているだけだ。日本のメディアもそうだけどこのメディアの言ってることもかなりズレている。

  14. 日本の多くの国民は高市さんを支持しています。
    ニューメディアを通じて本当の情報を手に入れた結果です。
    オールドメディアは今も偏向報道を行い続けていますが国民は真実に気付き始めました。

  15. In a few years, we Japanese will likely become a member of NATO in order to stand against those countries in Asia that take pleasure in killing people.

  16. "Ideologically, Sohei Kamiya of the Sanseitō party is the true successor to Shinzo Abe.
    A departure from the postwar regime.
    Japanese people first."

  17. The reason people chose Sanae Takaichi was that they believed she was the only person
    who could truly change Japan. For most people, the fact that she is a woman –
    rather than a man – was never an issue at all.

  18. She was chosen because she is a patriot. Not because she is a female.
    ALSO, WHY JAPAN'S GENDER GAP IS SO LOW IS THE ORGANIZATION THAT GIVES INFO FROM JAPAN IS USUALLY A HARD CORE ANTI-JAPAN LEFT-WING…

  19. It does not matter who pretends to be Japan's Prime Minister this month. They are occupied by the US Military & are a US vassal with no sovereignty or independence. Nothing significant can happen to benefit Japan without US approval.

  20. 女系天皇を認めないからフェミニストじゃないというのはねえ? フェミニストは女性ローマ法王を求めるのかね

  21. BBCあたりよりはマシだが、これも正しく報じているとはとても言えないね
    外国人問題の解決と財務省との戦いに勝って積極財政を実現すること
    これが最も求められている
    また女性云々は少なくとも支持者からはほとんど意識されていない

  22. Seems like Japan is sick of WOKE culture too- that is why Takaichi won. Activists calling Takaichi not a feminist says it all. The Japanese people voted for Takaichi because she is the best candidate, not because she is a woman.