Right-winger set to be Japan’s first female premier

New LDP leader Sanae Takaichi offers a potentially disruptive vision for change in Japan. Picture: Yuichi Yamazaki/ Pool Photo via AP/ AAP

TOKYO: Japan’s ruling party has picked hardline conservative Sanae Takaichi as its head, putting her on course to become the country’s first female prime minister in a move set to jolt investors and neighbours. The Liberal Democratic Party, which has ruled Japan for almost all of the postwar era, elected Takaichi, 64, on Saturday to […]

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