Who is Japan, “Iron Lady” Sana Takaishi?

Respected shape: Baronea Margaret Tischer. Personal goal: to become the Japanese Iron Lady.

After two failed attempts, Sanae Takaichi finally made her long ambition.

The 64-year-old was elected from the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party leader (LDP) on the seventieth anniversary-which put her on her path to become the first prime minister in the country.

You will now face a government minister and a TV hostess, and once a drumm player in a heavy metal band, the challenge of leading a party that is still struggling to restore the confidence of the voters after the scandals, while responding to the extreme right.

She was born in Nara Governorate in 1961, and Takaishi’s father was a worker in the office and her mother is a police officer. Politics was far from raising it.

One day she was a heavy metal drama player, she was famous for carrying many sticks because she was breaking her during intense drums. She was also diver and enthusiastic of cars – Habiba Supra Toyota is now displayed in the Nara Museum.

Before entering the policy, Takaychi briefly worked as a TV host.

Her political inspiration came in the eighties, during the height of the commercial friction of the United States. Determination of the American perceptions of Japan, worked at the Democratic Office Patricia Schroeder, a member of Congress known for criticizing Japan.

Takaishi saw the Americans mixing the Japanese, Chinese, Korean language and food, and monitoring how Japan was often assembled with China and South Korea.

She concluded that “what Japan could not defend itself, its fate will always be at the mercy of the shallow American opinion.”

She ran in her first parliamentary elections in 1992 as an independent but lost.

She continued, won a seat a year later and joined LDP in 1996. Since then, she was elected 10 times, lost only once, and built a reputation as one of the most explicit conservative voices in the party.

She has also held great government roles, including Minister of Economic Security, Minister of State for Trade and Industry, as standard as Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications.

In 2021, Takaichi entered for the first time in the LDP leadership race but lost to Fumio Kishida. She tried again in 2024, and this time she tops the first round of voting, but eventually lost to Shigro Eshiba.

This year, in her third attempt, she got victory – she put her on her path to become the first prime minister in Japan as soon as Parliament confirms her appointment.

“My goal is to become the Iron Lady,” she told a group of school children during her last campaign.

Takaychi is a strong governor and has long been opposed to legislation that allows married women to preserve their names before marriage, and insists on undermining traditions. She is also against sex marriage himself.

However, she recently relieved her dialect. During her campaign, she pledged to make the fees for children partially exempt from taxes and proposed on corporate tax for companies that provide children’s care services at home.

Her family and personal experiences support her policy proposals: expanding hospital services for women’s health, giving home support workers more recognized, and improving care options for the aging community in Japan.

She said, “I have suffered from nursing and progress three times in my life.” “For this reason, my design did not grow stronger only to reduce the number of people who were forced to leave their jobs due to the provision of care or raising children or children who refuse to enroll in school. I want to create a society that people do not have to give up their career.”

She pledged to revive the “Abenomics” economic vision of high public spending and cheap borrowing.

She was a regular visitor to the controversial Yasoconi Mazar, who honors the dead of the Japanese war, including the convicted war criminals.

It has also called for the reduction of constitutional restrictions on the country’s self -defense forces, which are banned from the presence of offensive capabilities.

Since its foundation in 1955, LDP has dominated Japanese policy, but is now losing amid frustration with slow economy, demographic decline and social discontent.

Takaichi belongs to the right side of the liberal Democratic Party, and in its election, the Democratic Party-to restore the conservative voters who were attracted to the extremist Sansito Party.

Sanseito, which works on the slogan “Japan First”, recently rose from one seat to 15 seats, which led to the removal of conservative voters. The Democratic Democratic Party has lost its majority in the House of Parliament.

Takaychi admitted itself in the problem in a speech after winning the first round of the vote: “We have received harsh criticism in particular from our main supporters, conservatives and party members.”

“The liberal Democratic Party must change for the present and future of Japan. We will always put the national interest first and manage the country with a sense of balance.”

Parliament is expected to confirm the Prime Minister on October 15.