Japan’s ruling party elects Sanae Takaichi as new leader, likely to become first female PM

Sanae Takaichi, the newly elected and staunchly conservative head of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, is expected to become Japan’s first woman prime minister. She won the leadership of Japan’s ruling party on Saturday (October 4). James Simms, a journalist based in Tokyo, tells us more.

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