{"id":74854,"date":"2025-10-21T21:06:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T12:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/21\/sanae-takaichi-japan-first-female-pm-appoints-two-women-to-cabinet"},"modified":"2025-10-21T21:06:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T12:06:05","slug":"sanae-takaichi-appoints-just-two-women-to-cabinet-after-becoming-japans-first-female-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74854","title":{"rendered":"Sanae Takaichi appoints just two women to cabinet after becoming Japan\u2019s first female PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New leader had promised levels of female representation comparable to those in Iceland, where six of cabinet of 11 are women<\/p>\n<p>Sanae Takaichi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/21\/pm-sanae-takaichi-japan-prime-minister\">made history<\/a> on Tuesday when she became <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a>\u2019s first female prime minister. But hours after she was elected by MPs, it was evident that female <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/07\/i-decided-i-could-do-better-than-them-the-women-taking-on-japans-male-dominated-politics\">under representation<\/a> in the country\u2019s political establishment would continue when she appointed just two women to her cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>Takaichi had promised levels of female representation in her government comparable to those in Iceland, Finland and Norway.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/21\/sanae-takaichi-japan-first-female-pm-appoints-two-women-to-cabinet\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New leader had promised levels of female representation comparable to those in Iceland, where six of cabinet of 11 are womenSanae Takaichi made history on Tuesday when she became Japan\u2019s first female prime minister. But hours after she was elected by M&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4825,"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":[41,88,79,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-society","category-women","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74854","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\/4825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74855,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74854\/revisions\/74855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}