LDP’s Sanae Takaichi needs to find coalition partners from opposition to become Japan’s first female prime minister.

Japanese companies have, little by little, been cracking the door open to more defense exports. A new political coalition is ...

Sanae Takaichi has become Japan's first female prime minister, a significant milestone in the country's male-dominated ...

And while the LDP has ruled Japan almost continuously for the last 30 years, it’s now in a precarious position as it prepares ...

Months before she became Japan’s prime minister, Sanae Takaichi said she’d been invited to meet US President Donald Trump.

Japan’s governing party has elected former Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi as its new leader, making her likely to ...

Few would have predicted that Japan would beat its longtime ally the United States in the race to elect the first female ...

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

Here’s how the LDP leader remade Japan’s ruling coalition to become the country’s first female Prime Minister.

Her ascent consolidates Japan’s conservative establishment after years of policy drift. Markets responded swiftly. The Nikkei ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s embattled governing party now has its new leader, former Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi, a ...

The new Japanese prime minister and LDP leader has been elected partly to see off a surging far right, at a time of ...