Takaichi, in a televised interview with public television network NHK following her sweeping victory, said she is now ready to pursue policies that would make Japan strong and prosperous.
The latest surveys indicated a landslide win in the lower house for the LDP. The opposition, despite the formation of a new centrist alliance and a rising far-right, is seen as too splintered to be a ...
Parliament was highly likely to approve Takaichi as prime minister on Tuesday afternoon and she will formally take office after meeting the emperor later