{"id":74852,"date":"2025-10-21T14:06:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T05:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/21\/pm-sanae-takaichi-japan-prime-minister"},"modified":"2025-10-21T19:37:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T10:37:18","slug":"a-trump-visit-a-creaking-coalition-and-a-cost-of-living-crisis-japans-new-pm-needs-a-fast-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74852","title":{"rendered":"A Trump visit, a creaking coalition and a cost of living crisis: Japan\u2019s new PM needs a fast start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sanae Takaichi has made history but will have little time to settle in before negotiating the pitfalls of rising prices, power struggles and a mercurial US president<\/p>\n<p>It is hard to overstate the symbolism of Sanae Takaichi\u2019s achievement in becoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/20\/sanae-takaichi-likely-become-japan-first-female-prime-minister\">the first female prime minister<\/a> of Japan, a country that consistently ranks poorly in global gender equality comparisons, not least in politics and business.<\/p>\n<p>However, she will have precious little time to savour her historic appointment on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/21\/pm-sanae-takaichi-japan-prime-minister\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanae Takaichi has made history but will have little time to settle in before negotiating the pitfalls of rising prices, power struggles and a mercurial US presidentIt is hard to overstate the symbolism of Sanae Takaichi\u2019s achievement in becoming the f&#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":[41,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74852","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=74852"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74857,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74852\/revisions\/74857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}