Sanae Takaichi elected Japan's first female prime minister in historic vote

Sanae Takaichi made history by becoming the country’s first female prime minister, receiving 237 votes in parliament’s 465-seat lower house and winning a similar slim majority in the less powerful upper house. Her victory was secured after her Liberal Democratic party, which has governed Japan for most of its postwar history, agreed on Monday to form a coalition with the rightwing Japan Innovation party, known as Nippon Ishin Sanae Takaichi: Japan’s first female PM, who cites Thatcher as an influence Sanae Takaichi appoints just two women to cabinet after becoming Japan’s first female PM