Sanae Takaichi has become Japan's first female prime minister, a significant milestone in the country's male-dominated political landscape.

Without stability, we cannot push measures for a strong economy or diplomacy,” she added.The July election left the LDP without the numbers to govern alone – an unprecedented blow for a party that has dominated Japanese politics for nearly seven decades.

For many young girls in Japan today, the image of Sanae Takaichi taking the helm of power as the country's first ever female leader is powerful and formative. It means a patriarchal society and a political system that has long been dominated by men is now led by a woman.

Formed in 2010 to shake up Japan's political establishment and loosen Tokyo's administrative stranglehold, the Japan Innovation Party, known as Ishin, will now help the ruling Liberal Democratic Party extend seven decades of dominance.

Takaichi Sanae, head of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), and Yoshimura Hirofumi, representative of the Japan Innovation Party, met at the National Diet in Tokyo at 6 p.m. on the 20th and signed a document for a coalition government.

Following the historic coalition deal between the Liberal Democratic Party and the Japan Innovation Party, unease is growing within b

Liberal Democratic Party leader Sanae Takaichi looks set to become Japan's first female prime minister after the right-leaning Japan Innovation Party, known as Ishin, said it was ready to back her premiership.