Formed in 2010 to shake up Japan's political establishment and loosen Tokyo's administrative stranglehold, the Japan ...

Japan’s Sanae Takaichi is poised to become the nation’s first female prime minister, taking on the challenges of quelling ...

Sanae Takaichi has just been confirmed as Japan’s first female prime minister. But more important than her gender might be ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, in her first major policy speech on Friday, pledged to further accelerate Japan’s ...

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

After Sanae Takaichi took office as Japan's first woman prime minister, AFP spoke to some of her younger counterparts who ...

President Bola Tinubu has congratulated Sanae Takaichi on her historic emergence as the first female Prime Minister of Japan, describing her emergence as ...

An admirer of Britain’s Margaret Thatcher, Sanae Takaichi’s rise to be Japan’s first female prime minister marks a watershed ...

Japan pledged $550 billion in investments, but it wants the money to benefit its own companies, making that a condition in a ...

Japan ranks low in gender equality among developed nations. The first woman to lead the country is an ultraconservative who ...

The acolyte of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is likely to make a sharp turn to the right on immigration and defence.

Hardline conservative Sanae Takaichi was chosen as Japan's first female prime minister on Tuesday, shattering the political ...