Takaichi’s growing influence is rooted in the dissatisfaction among party members with Ishiba’s leadership, particularly his disciplinary action against those involved in the funding scandal.

Since the race kicked off on Oct. 15, former economic security minister Sanae Takaichi has crisscrossed the country to give stump speeches on behalf of many candidates. While Ishiba and the party ...

Sanae Takaichi, a onetime internal affairs minister in the same conservative mold as her ally and mentor former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, cleared the minimum 20 backers in the ruling Liberal ...

In a global year of elections, Japan’s long-serving Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has suffered its second-worst result on ...

We see a risk, however, if PM Ishiba steps down and Sanae Takaichi were to become the new LDP leader." Takaichi recently lost ...

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Waiting in the wings is Sanae Takaichi, the preferred choice from the ultra-conservative faction of the LDP who Mr Ishiba, a moderate, defeated in last month’s leadership election. open image in ...

The defeat of candidate Takaichi Sanae in the LDP presidential election perhaps came as a relief to China and South Korea. Takaichi had the support of conservative politicians such as the Nippon ...

Ishiba only narrowly won the party leadership over his ultra-conservative rival Sanae Takaichi, a nationalist who has criticised the country’s steadily improving ties with South Korea in recent ...

Hours before winning a vote to stay on as Japan’s prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba was caught napping in parliament. But with Donald Trump headed back to the White House, he needs to wake up fast.

Within the ruling party, the process of selecting Ishiba over Takaichi as LDP president resulted in a deeply felt dynamic positioning his supporters as the mainstream and her backers as the ...

There also aren’t many great candidates waiting in the wings. Sanae Takaichi, who Ishiba beat in the runoff election last month, is divisive. Shinjiro Koizumi, the third leading candidate in ...