Her worldview rests on the conviction that Japan must reclaim a central role in shaping Asia’s strategic future.

Renowned Japan expert Sheila Smith discusses the country’s historic election of its first female prime minister, her politics ...

The famous Crawford, despite being 12 years older at the time, unapologetically flirted with Bryant through the interview.

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Sanae Takaichi took office as Japan's first female prime minister, but her surprisingly male-dominated cabinet and socially ...

Japan's first-ever female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, is a conservative with a traditional view of gender roles and a ...

With the Liberal Democratic Party and the Japan Innovation Party, the No. 2 opposition, agreeing to form a coalition government, it has become all but certain that Takaichi Sanae, the LDP president, ...

Sanae Takaichi is poised to break Japan’s political glass ceiling. But some worry she will maintain policies that have held women back. By Javier C. Hernández and River Akira Davis Reporting from ...

Japan’s incoming prime minister is a heavy metal drummer with an iron will — that insiders say gives her an in with President Trump. Sanae Takaichi is set to become Japan’s first female prime minister ...

The opposition Japan Innovation Party (JIP) announced on Friday that it is close to reaching a coalition agreement with the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to elect its prime minister, the first woman ...

For most of her life, Sanae Takaichi has loved heavy metal. Since drumming in a college band, the 64-year-old politician has remained a fan of groups like Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden. She used to ...

Sanae Takaichi is poised to become Japan's first female prime minister, but many of her positions are socially conservative in an often still deeply patriarchal nation.