Hardline Nationalist Sanae Takaichi has won the leadership election for Japan’s reigning party and paves the way for the country to get its first prime minister – and change the ideological attitude of its government dramatically to the right.
Mrs. Takaichi, 64, is ready for a successful Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba as their LDP party remains the great in parliament. But with the recent elections that see the LDP-led coalition losing its majority in both parliamentary chambers, she needs support from opposition parties to control smoothly.
Saturday’s LDP leadership competition was a five-way race, but Takaichi, who has repeatedly withdrawn to Margaret Thatcher as a source of inspiration, and the more moderate political scion Shinjiro Koizumi, 44, was always seen as favorites. They are the two top candidates before Mrs. Takaichi secured victory in a runoff reconciliation on Saturday afternoon.
Mrs. Takaichi is now facing the task of gaining back confidence from a public angry of rising prices and corruption scandals and drawing to opposition groups that promise large stimulus and precipitation in foreign.
Parliament is expected to speak on October 15 for formally to elect the next prime minister.
To educate financial security and Minister of the Interior, Mrs. Takaichi has repeatedly reduced to the late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as her inspiration and quotes her strong character and conviction combined with her “female warmth”. She said she puts “Iron Lady” on a symposium shortly before Thatcher’s death in 2013.
A drummer and fan of Heavy Metal, Mrs. Takaichi is no stranger to creating noise himself. She is a regular visitors to Yasukuni -Saint who honors Japan’s Death of War – including some executed war criminals – and is considered by some Asian neighbors as a symbol of its former militarism.
Mrs. Takaichi favors the revision of Japan’s Pasifist post -war constitution to recognize the role of the expanding military. She suggested this year that Japan could form a “Quasi Security Alliance” with Taiwan, the democratically controlled island required by China close to Japan’s Okinawa Island chain.
“Takaichi is a very experienced politician. She has also had some experience in the United States, [she is] A long-standing observer of the US-Japan relationship saw her strength, ”said Yuka Hayashi, vice president of the Asia group, a Washington-based strategic consulting firm.
“She said she is confidential that she could build a very strong personal relationship with President Trump. And the reason her politics focuses on what she calls ‘Japan First’ policy. And that kind of corresponds to President Trump’s America First Policy. Thread there.
“She has had a very Hawkish attitude towards heritage from World War II. She has insisted on visiting Yasukuni -shrine several times that are known that would deny Japan’s relationship with her neighbors. So there is some concern that the captain’s fuel stresses with South Korea and China.
“This is a very challenging time for LDP, so I think she would probably try to focus on party unit and be very careful about taking excessively conservative hard line in foreign policy.”
Although Mrs. Takaichi has promised to overlap more women to cabinet positions – a arena where Japan continues to trace behind her G7 counters – suggests surves that her conservative views resonate stronger with men than with women.
She remains against marriage of the same sex and to let married couples use separate solar policies that enjoy broad public support but face fierce opposition within conservative rows.
However, it is her economic agenda that may be the greatest shaking through Japan’s political and economic establishment.
A Protégé from late Shinzo Abe and a Stauunch support from his “Abenomics” stimulus program, Mrs. Takaichi has called on increased public spending and tax cuts to offset the increasing living costs while criticizing Bank of Japan’s decision to wander interest.
Born in Nara, western Japan, to a scripture mother and a father employed in the country’s vital car sector, Mrs. Takaichi has often drawn to her roots to shape his political image.
In a speech last month, she condemned tourists of mistreating the holy deer who freely wandered Nara Park and promised harsher actions against irregular foreign visitors – an attitude that has hit an chord with some voter ad records nurse of migrants and tourism.
A candidate from Kobe University with a degree in business management, Mrs. Takaichi, later served as a congress fellow in the US Congress, in accordance with her official website. Shet entered politics in 1993 and won a seat in the lower house as independent before joining the Liberal Democratic Party three years later.