Rise of Japan’s ‘Iron Lady’ heralds hardline shift to countering North Korea

Introducing Japan’s own Iron Lady

Japan is still in many ways a traditionalist – not to say a sexist – society. But the times they are a changing, and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) have just chosen Sanae Takaichi as its leader, which means that she will become the country’s first ever female Prime Minister, and it’s most stridently right-wing one. Takaichi, 64, revels in the nickname the “Iron Lady” and is a hardline patriotic right-winger who is an avowed admirer of…

Rise of Japan’s ‘Iron Lady’ heralds hardline shift to countering North Korea

A firebrand security hawk who has pushed for Japan to renounce its pacifist military stance and downplayed wartime atrocities is set to become the country’s next prime minister, setting up a shift in Tokyo’s approach to countering North Korea but potentially endangering cooperation with Seoul. In her third leadership bid, former economic security minister Sanae […]

Sanae Takaichi: What to Expect from Japan’s New ‘Iron Lady’

… the US, China, and Germany. Controversial stances Takaichi has stuck … Even before her election, she positioned herself as a … and South Korea, allaying concerns that the recently … Ishiba, and US President Donald Trump's administration. Japan';s military build