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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Ms Takaichi, an ultra-conservative who on Tuesday became Japan’s first female prime minister, had promised to model her ...

Japan has made history with Sanae Takaichi becoming its first woman prime minister after a parliamentary vote on October 21, ...

Japan's parliament elected ultraconservative politician Sanae Takaichi as the country's first female prime minister, just ...