TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s governing party on Saturday elected former Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi, a hard-line ultra-conservative and China hawk, as its new leader, making her likely to become the country’s first female prime minister.
In a country that ranks poorly internationally for gender equality, the 64-year-old Takaichi makes history as the first female leader of Japan’s long-governing conservative Liberal Democratic Party. Takaichi is one of the most conservative members of the male-dominated party.
An admirer of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Takaichi is a protege of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ‘s ultra-conservative vision and a regular at the Yasukuni Shrine, seen as a symbol of Japan’s wartime militarism, which could complicate Tokyo’s relations with its Asian neighbors.
Takaichi beat Agriculture Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, the son of popular former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, in a runoff in a vote by the LDP on Saturday.
Takaichi replaces Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba as the party hopes to regain public support and stay in power after major election losses.
She is likely to be Japan’s next prime minister because the party remains by far the largest in the lower house, which determines the national leader, and because opposition groups are highly splintered.
”Now that the LDP has its first female president, its scenery will change a little,” Takaichi said as she tried out the president’s chair. more
…goodbye, Japan.
You’ll be joining Germany, Sweden, and New Zeeland in bein led by a female into illegal alien hell very, very soon…
From what I’m reading online at X…She’s the Japanese version of Trump.
Rock on.
SNDS,
I disagree.
SHINZO ABE was a VERY RIGHT WING CONSERVATIVE.
They KILLED HIM.
This woman was a devout protege of Abe as the article says.
As with the USA, most of the world is correcting towards the right.
Except my Sh!t-hol@!
Things just have to get a bit worse in Canuckistan, and hopefully it happens, or I F#@K*FF to ALBERTA!
Chicks are more “compassionate”, sometimes without thought of longer term consequences. Those starving kid ads arent aimed at dudes.
I could be wrong. I hope Im wrong. Her CV thus far seems to suggest Im wrong.
But sometimes people change when they get to be the boss instead of the flunky.
I guess we’ll see…
Japan would rather build a robot or automate to avoid importing problems from “Sh!t-H*L@ Countries”
HELL, they’d NEVER LET ME IN!
The main question remains…..” Is her Taka ichi? “…
To SNS, I guess Margaret Thatcher was a woke Karen.
She’s a right wing nationalist who will save Japan from becoming another multi-culty shithole filled with Africans and muzzies destroying Japanese civilization and their trust based society.
Well, it’s safe to say that a lot of people will be paying close attention. But then, when was I ever interested in saying safe things? 😂
From the photo caption: “Newly-elected leader of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Sanae Takaichi…”
From the article: “…elected former Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi, a hard-line ultra-conservative…”