Takaichi, the leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, won a clear majority on Tuesday, with 237 votes in the powerful ...

Sanae Takaichi has become Japan's first woman prime minister: as the country's fifth premier in as many years, she leads a minority government and has a long to-do list, not least handling the ...

EU chief Ursula von der Leyen congratulated Takaichi for "making history" as Japan's first woman premier. Takaichi had promised a cabinet with "Nordic" levels of women, up from two under predecessor ...

Takaichi, Japan’s first female leader, plans to meet her Malaysian counterpart and ASEAN chair, Malaysia’s Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, in bilateral talks. She is expected to announce the ...

Japan’s exports grew 4.2% in September, according to government data, on robust shipments to Asia that offset the decline to ...

U.S. President Donald Trump plans to visit Japan from Monday to next Wednesday and meet with newly elected Prime Minister ...

Japan has elected its first female Prime Minister. Sanae Takaichi won 237 votes while Yoshihiko Noda head of the largest ...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average hit a record on Tuesday as the floodgates opened for companies reporting how much profit ...

Takaichi’s election is part of a trend worldwide which also recently resulted in the first conservative president of Bolivia ...

By bno - Tokyo Office Japan has elected its first-ever female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, following a parliamentary vote ...

On Tuesday, Sanae Takaichi, 64, won election as Japan’s prime minister, the first woman to do so in the nation’s history.

Sanae Takaichi wants to spend a lot of money on Japan, but she also needs to sort out some hefty financial obligations to the ...