{"id":74834,"date":"2025-10-20T13:48:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T04:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/20\/sanae-takaichi-likely-become-japan-first-female-prime-minister"},"modified":"2025-10-20T20:56:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T11:56:16","slug":"sanae-takaichi-on-track-to-become-japans-first-female-prime-minister-after-reportedly-agreeing-to-new-coalition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74834","title":{"rendered":"Sanae Takaichi on course to become Japan\u2019s first female PM after new coalition deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials confirm reports that Takaichi\u2019s Liberal Democratic party will join forces with rightwing Nippon Ishin<\/p>\n<p>Sanae Takaichi is on course to become Japan\u2019s <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\">first female prime minister<\/a> this week after her party agreed to form a new coalition with a minor party.<\/p>\n<p>Officials confirmed on Monday that Takaichi\u2019s Liberal Democratic party (LDP) had joined forces with the rightwing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/01\/japan-election-rightwing-populists-sweep-vote-in-osaka\">Nippon Ishin<\/a> (Japan Innovation party), which shares her hawkish stance on China and support for restrictions on immigration.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/20\/sanae-takaichi-likely-become-japan-first-female-prime-minister\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials confirm reports that Takaichi\u2019s Liberal Democratic party will join forces with rightwing Nippon IshinSanae Takaichi is on course to become Japan\u2019s first female prime minister this week after her party agreed to form a new coalition with a min&#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-74834","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\/74834","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=74834"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74836,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74834\/revisions\/74836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}