Sanae Takaichi's surprise victory to become Japan's next prime minister has left investors wondering whether the protégé of the late Shinzo Abe could usher in similar stimulus policies that may boost ...

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Motoko Shimada fondly recalls when a classmate at her public school in the western Japanese city of Nara, Sanae Takaichi, showed early signs of the leadership that would set her on course to become ...

A drummer in a heavy-metal band and a motorcycle rider as a student, Sanae Takaichi has called for a stronger military, more fiscal spending for growth, promotion of nuclear fusion and tougher ...

The governing party’s unexpected choice of Sanae Takaichi as its leader and Japan’s likely next prime minister caused the yen to weaken and stocks to soar on Monday.

Japan is set to get its first female prime minister, and conservative Sanae Takaichi will have complex political juggling to do from day-1 to keep the job.

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Ms. Takaichi would be Japan’s first female prime minister in a country where women are drastically underrepresented at the highest levels of power.

Japan’s embattled governing party now has its new leader, former Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi, a hardline conservative who is poised to become the country’s first female prime minister ...

Sanae Takaichi’s victory in Saturday’s party leadership race, ahead of a vote that is expected to make her Japan’s first-ever female prime minister later this month, anticipated greater government ...

An admirer of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Sanae Takaichi is a protege of the ultra-conservative vision of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.