US EditionTakaichi Will Be Reappointed as Japan’s Prime Minister with a Goal of Pushing to the Right
Sanae Takaichi uses her two-thirds lower house supermajority to push right-leaning policies on immigration, military expansion, and conservative social reforms.
- Following last week's landslide, Japan's lower house will reappoint Sanae Takaichi as prime minister on Wednesday, with her forming a second Cabinet.
- Facing domestic pressure to ease costs, Takaichi has campaigned for tougher immigration rules that resonate with Japanese voters' frustrations, and must pass a delayed budget to fund relief measures.
- Takaichi's short-term measures include a proposed two-year sales-tax cut on food and plans to establish a national intelligence agency to work with allies such as Australia and Britain.
- Diplomatic friction with Beijing followed after Takaichi's November warnings on Taiwan and her planned visit to Yasukuni Shrine, while the U.S. endorsed her, likely expecting her to deliver on a $550 billion investment package.
- Looking ahead, she is maneuvering for a summit with U.S. President Donald Trump next month as she plans conservative social changes including support for male-only imperial succession and laws on maiden names as aliases, critics say.
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Sanae Takaichi just pulled off something rare in the sterile corridors of Japanese politics: she made history. As the nation’s first female prime minister, she called a snap election, bet her political future on a 16-day sprint, and walked away with a supermajority that would make most leaders drool. The Liberal Democratic Party now holds 316 seats in the lower house—more than two-thirds of the chamber. It is the kind of dominance that hasn’t be…
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