While campaigning for the job, Japan’s new prime minister Sanae Takaichi said that her goal “is to become the Iron Lady.” A fan of Margaret Thatcher– and heavy metal band Iron Maiden – the hard-line conservative yesterday became the first woman to be elected as Japanese prime minister.

Her election led

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