Sanae Takaichi acknowledges her fellow lawmakers after being elected as Japan's new prime minister on Tuesday. Photograph: Franck Robichon/EPA
Hardline conservative Sanae Takaichi was voted in by parliament as Japan’s first female prime minister on Tuesday, emulating her hero, Britain’s late leader Margaret Thatcher, after a whirlwind few weeks of political wrangling. Having won the race to be chosen by her ruling Liberal Democratic Party as its leader on October 5th, Ms Takaichi had to scramble for support after her party’s more moderate coalition partner quit their 26-
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