Three months since becoming Japan’s first woman prime minister, Sanae Takaichi has taken the risky step of calling a snap election in a bid to convert her popularity into more political power.
Voters will again trudge to the polling stations just 15 months since Japan’s last general election, and after the shortest campaign in postwar history: polls open on February 8th. Ms Takaichi is the country’s fourth leader in five years.
“Is Sanae Takaichi fit to be prime minister?” she asked this week. “I would ask people to make a direct judgment on whether they should entrust me with running the nation.” She said the decision to diss
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