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The Liberal Democratic Party suffered a crushing defeat in Sunday’s Tokyo metropolitan assembly election, which is seen as a ...
LDP parliamentarian Takaichi Sanae (front left) walks with Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te (front right) during a meeting in Taipei, Taiwan, Apr. 28, 2025. Credit: Instagram/ Takaichi Sanae ...
Others in the Takaichi delegation, which departed yesterday, were Japanese representatives Hitoshi Kikawada and Masanao Ozaki, as well as Japanese House of Councilors member Kei Sato, Lin said. The ...
The convention was shrouded in a “somewhat gloomy atmosphere,” said former LDP policy chief Sanae Takaichi, who was another rival of Ishiba in the party election. A former member of the now ...
After her LDP election loss, Takaichi sought to be named secretary-general—the second-highest party post—but her request was denied, and she now has no official LDP position.
On 1 October 2024, Shigeru Ishiba was sworn in as Japan’s new prime minister. To win the top job, he overcame a crowded field with a record nine candidates in the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) ...
Sanae Takaichi, the most hawkish and conservative of the candidates, received the largest number of party member votes (72 for lawmakers and 109 for party members, 181 votes in total). Ishiba, who ...
On 1 October, Shigeru Ishiba was sworn in as Japan’s new prime minister after winning the Liberal Democratic Party’s (LDP) leadership election on his fifth attempt. His elevation to Japan’s top job ...
On September 27, Ishiba Shigeru came from behind in the second round of voting to take the LDP presidency. A look at how he arrived here and the tasks before him as he takes office and prepares ...
Sanae Takaichi (economic security minister) Recent media surveys of LDP lawmakers and party members, however, make it a three-horse race between Ishiba, Koizumi and Takaichi.
Ishiba won the ruling LDP leadership election, securing 215 votes to become Japan's next leader. The former defence minister defeated Sanae Takaichi, who garnered 194 votes, in a closely contested ...
Here, Ishiba will have others, including Takaichi Sanae and Kobayashi Takayuki, who will want to see the SDF given authority to offer a firm response to foreign military challenges.