Sanae Takaichi addresses a packed venue at a campaign rally on Oct. 16 in Nagano for a candidate from the Liberal Democratic Party who is running without official party endorsement. (Keishi Nishimura) ...

Sanae Takaichi, a onetime internal affairs minister in the same conservative mold as her ally and mentor former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, cleared the minimum 20 backers in the ruling Liberal ...

Since the race kicked off on Oct. 15, former economic security minister Sanae Takaichi has crisscrossed the country to give stump speeches on behalf of many candidates. While Ishiba and the party ...

It headed into a run-off between Ishiba and Sanae Takaichi, 63, who vied to become Japan’s first female leader. "We ought to be a party that lets members discuss the truth in a free and open ...

Sanae Takaichi, a conservative leader and protégé of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, is aiming to become Japan's first-ever female prime minister. Japan’s ruling party is set to elect its ...

The leadership contest for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which has governed almost uninterrupted for decades, went down to the wire on Friday, with right-winger Sanae Takaichi tipped to win ...

Sanae Takaichi, head of the Economic Security Ministry, and former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba made it to the second round, according to a broadcast on the party's YouTube channel. One of them ...

defeating economic security minister Sanae Takaichi in a runoff vote. He is set to become the country’s next prime minister, with Fumio Kishida handing over the reins after almost exactly three ...

Japan has never had a woman prime minister and Ishiba narrowly beat one of its few prominent female politicians, nationalist Sanae Takaichi, to the top job in a party leadership vote. The 1,344 ...