{"id":72161,"date":"2025-10-23T07:29:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T10:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubirataonline.com.br\/who-is-sanae-takaichi-japans-first-female-prime-minister-npr\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T07:29:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T10:29:23","slug":"who-is-sanae-takaichi-japans-first-female-prime-minister-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubirataonline.com.br\/en\/who-is-sanae-takaichi-japans-first-female-prime-minister-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s first female prime minister? : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Japan’s first-ever female prime minister<\/a>, Sanae Takaichi, is a conservative with a traditional view of gender roles and a penchant for heavy metal music.<\/p>\n

Japan’s parliament elected Takaichi on Tuesday, several weeks after she was chosen to lead<\/a> the conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which has spent much of the last seven decades in power. The LDP is seen as shifting further to the right: It was only able to elect Takaichi by forming an alliance with a right-wing populist party, after losing its longtime coalition partner earlier this month.<\/p>\n

Takaichi, 64, is “one of the most conservative people in Japan’s conservative LDP,” explains Jeffrey Hall, a lecturer at Kanda University of International Studies in Japan.<\/p>\n