Japan's female prime minister

JAPAN'S parliament has elected the ultraconservative politician Sanae Takaichi as the country’s first female prime minister, a day after her struggling party struck a coalition deal with a new partner expected to pull her governing group further to the right.

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Ms Takaichi replaces Shigeru Ishiba, ending a three-month political vacuum and wrangling since her Liberal Democratic Party’s disastrous election results in July. Mr Ishiba, who lasted only one year as prim