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

Editor’s note: On October 4th Takaichi Sanae won the race to lead Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party. She is set to become prime minister after a vote in parliament on October 15th.

Sanae Takaichi, the pro-stimulus conservative who has become Japan’s first female prime minister, is an energetic nationalist ...

Hawkish on security policy, dovish on fiscal policy and traditionalist on social policy, she will move her country to the right ...