She replaces Shigeru Ishiba, ending a three-month political vacuum and wrangling since the Liberal Democratic Party's ...

Share prices have soared in Japan recently on hopes that conservative lawmaker Sanae Takaichi, who was chosen Tuesday to be ...

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

Sanae Takaichi is on track to become Japan's first female prime minister after her governing party secured a crucial ...

Hardline conservative Sanae Takaichi became the first female prime minister of Japan on Tuesday, October 21. This win came a few weeks after Takaichi became the president of the Liberal Democratic ...

Sanae Takaichi has been elected Japan's prime minister by parliament, making her the first woman to hold the office. The ...

TOKYO--Japan's newly minted prime minister has appointed Satsuki Katayama as the nation's first female finance minister, a move that could stoke expectations of more expansive fiscal policy.

Though her election is a milestone, Takaichi enters office with a fragile coalition and facing a number of pressing ...

Takaichi Sanae, head of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), and Yoshimura Hirofumi, representative of the Japan ...

Japan’s ruling party has forged a new coalition, paving the way for its leader to become the country’s next prime minister.

Japan's Liberal Democratic Party and the Japan Innovation Party have effectively agreed to form a coalition government, ...