The conservative coalition of Takaichi, the nation's first female leader, is on track to win around 300 of the 465 seats in the lower house of parliament, according to multiple opinion polls, a large ...

Japanese voters trudged through snow on Sunday to cast their ballots in an election predicted to hand Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi a resounding win, though record dumps in some parts of the country s...

An admirer of former UK leader Margaret Thatcher, Takaichi has long pursued the ambition of becoming Japan's "Iron Lady".