Sanae Takaichi, the pro-stimulus conservative poised to become Japan’s first female prime minister, is an energetic nationalist with a soft spot for the hard-nosed politics of Iron Lady Margaret ...

The two major players in India's neighbourhood, China and Japan, are set for recalibrated engagement under a new PM. An ...

Election of Sanae Takaichi is a response to voter angst over immigration and other issues that is boosting conservatives and ...

Sanae Takaichi, an admirer of Britain’s Margaret Thatcher, was elected on Saturday as president of the ruling party, ...

The shock of losing to President Donald Trump a second time has inspired the biggest bout of Democratic introspection since the 1980s.

Japan's governing party on Saturday elected former Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi, a hard-line ultra-conservative ...

Takaichi, known for her nationalist stance and admiration for former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, represents a ...

Takaichi has been a vocal advocate of "Abenomics", a hefty mix of government spending and monetary stimulus deployed by her ...

Japan's governing party on Saturday elected Sanae Takaichi, a hard-line ultra-conservative and China hawk, as its new leader, ...

With Sanae Takaichi set to become Japan's prime minister, advancing expansionist economic policies, chances have risen that the central bank will avoid raising interest rates this month, though the ...

Japan’s long-governing Liberal Democratic Party will choose a new leader Saturday to replace Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba.

As soon as the international press got past the historic news Saturday that Japan had just chosen its first-ever female prime ...