Can Takaichi Save Japan’s Stalled Economy?

As of Oct 19, 2025, Sanae Takaichi has won the LDP leadership and—pending the Diet vote—is poised to become Japan’s first female prime minister.

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16 Comments

  1. There's absolutely nothing new about what Takaichi is doing. This is literally the same copy and paste idiocracy that put Japan into decades of stagnation. Don't compare her to the Iron lady.

  2. Hopefully, but the pattern here is a shift to woke>DEI>inner turmoil>quality and standards degrade> then heavy reliance on the US and or UK for stability.

  3. probably not. japan is doomed to go down along with the us. the plaza accords condemned japan to prolonged fail. if they want to succeed, they need to turn to its neighboors for economic cooperation, stand up to western bullying and get its soverenty back by expelling us military from its territory. before that, they cannot do much.