Japan's first female prime minister, Takaichi, aims to attract young voters with a rightward shift and conservative policies.

Japan focused exchange-traded funds rallied as the Nikkei hit a record high after conservative leader Sanae Takaichi was elected the country's first female prime minister.

Sanae Takaichi is poised to break Japan’s political glass ceiling. But some worry she will maintain policies that have held ...

The hardline conservative emulated her hero Margaret Thatcher after a whirlwind few weeks of political wrangling.

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 won Japan's ruling party leadership on Saturday, defeating male rivals; she is set to become Japan's first ...

Though her election is a milestone in a country that struggles with gender equality, critics say hard-line conservative Sanae ...

TOKYO] Sanae Takaichi, a staunch conservative who admires Margaret Thatcher, became Japan’s first woman prime minister on ...

Takaichi has long expressed pro-stimulus views, and her rise to power has rattled some economists and shaken a few markets on the possibility that Abenomics — the near-decade experiment in supereasy ...

Japan got its first woman prime minister on Tuesday after Sanae Takaichi, a China hawk and social conservative, forged an ...

Sanae Takaichi, the new leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), is expected to become Japan’s next Prime Minister.Her appointment has drawn attention both for its symbolism and for her ...