{"id":1301478,"date":"2025-10-04T11:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T08:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/japan-has-its-first-female-prime-minister\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T11:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T08:29:08","slug":"japan-has-its-first-female-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/japan-has-its-first-female-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan has its first female prime minister."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"118\" data-end=\"306\"><strong>For the first time in Japanese history, a woman has assumed the post of prime minister. The new head of government is 64-year-old Sanae Takaichi of the Liberal Democratic Party.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"118\" data-end=\"306\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cx2pmy7m72lo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The BBC<\/a> reports this.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"308\" data-end=\"526\"> She replaced Shigeru Ishiba, who resigned on September 7 after reaching a trade agreement with the United States. Ishiba had been in power for less than a year and suffered a defeat against the LDP in the upper house elections.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"528\" data-end=\"863\"> Takaichi is known for her conservative views. She opposes same-sex marriage and women retaining their maiden names after marriage, and also holds an anti-immigrant stance. For her tough policies, she has been called Japan&#8217;s &#8220;Iron Lady,&#8221; compared to former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, whom Takaichi considers a role model.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"865\" data-end=\"1048\"> The new prime minister advocates revising Japan&#8217;s pacifist constitution, regularly visits the Yasukuni Shrine, and supports Ukraine in foreign policy and takes a hard line toward China.<\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\"><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"876\" data-end=\"1167\"> Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"876\" data-end=\"1167\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in Japanese history, a woman has assumed the post of prime minister. The new head of government is 64-year-old Sanae Takaichi of the Liberal Democratic Party. The BBC reports this. She replaced Shigeru Ishiba, who resigned on September 7 after reaching a trade agreement with the United States. Ishiba had been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":487562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76875,76894],"class_list":["post-1301478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1301478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1301478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1301478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}