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Japan’s first female PM: Shattering the glass ceiling or a right turn?
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Japan’s first female PM: Shattering the glass ceiling or a right turn?
Sanae Takaichi has become Japan’s first woman prime minister and a rare outsider in Japanese politics, typically dominated by elite circles. But don’t mistake her for a liberal icon.
October 28, 2025

Japan has finally broken the glass ceiling, but the woman who did it — Sanae Takaichi — is a hard-right veteran. Her rise is built on revisionism and a push to rewrite Japan’s pacifist constitution.

Episode out now on TRT World’s YouTube channel.

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