{"id":74598,"date":"2025-10-04T15:28:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T06:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/04\/sanae-takaichi-the-new-leader-of-japans-liberal-democratic-party-who-cites-thatcher-as-an-influence"},"modified":"2025-10-21T20:32:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T11:32:48","slug":"sanae-takaichi-the-new-leader-of-japans-liberal-democratic-party-who-cites-thatcher-as-an-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74598","title":{"rendered":"Sanae Takaichi: Japan\u2019s first female PM, who cites Thatcher as an influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Takaichi is a rightwing China critic who opposes same-sex marriage and led a migration-focused election campaign<\/p>\n<p>When candidates for the leadership of Japan\u2019s ruling Liberal Democratic party (LDP) were invited during a debate to say a few words in English, Sanae Takaichi kept her contribution brief. \u201cJapan is back,\u201d she declared.<\/p>\n<p>The 64-year-old rightwinger, who has cited Margaret Thatcher in her quest to build a \u201cstrong and prosperous\u201d Japan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/04\/sanae-takaichi-expected-to-become-japans-first-female-pm-after-winning-ruling-party-leadership\">beat her centrist rival, Shinjiro Koizumi, in a runoff election<\/a> at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo on 4 October.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/04\/sanae-takaichi-the-new-leader-of-japans-liberal-democratic-party-who-cites-thatcher-as-an-influence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Takaichi is a rightwing China critic who opposes same-sex marriage and led a migration-focused election campaignWhen candidates for the leadership of Japan\u2019s ruling Liberal Democratic party (LDP) were invited during a debate to say a few words in Engli&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,415,88,638,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-donald-trump","category-japan","category-shinzo-abe","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74598"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74856,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74598\/revisions\/74856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}