Sanae Takaichi will become the first female prime minister of Japan

The ruling Conservative Party of Japan has chosen Sanei as its new leader, positioning the 64-year-old to be the first female prime minister of Japan.

Takachi is among the more conservative candidates leaning against the ruling party’s right. A former government minister, television presenter and avid heavy metal drummer, she is one of the most famous figures in Japanese politics – and controversial in this.

It faces many challenges, including fighting a slow economy and households, struggling with relentless inflation and stagnant salaries.

She will also have to navigate the US-Yaponia Rocky Relationship and see through a tariff transaction with the Trump administration agreed by the previous government.

If confirmed as Prime Minister, one of Takachi’s key challenges would be the party to unite after a tumultuous few years, who saw him shake out of scandals and internal conflicts.

Last month, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, whose term lasted just over a year, announced that he would withdraw after a series of election damage that saw that the leading coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) was losing its majority in both parliament’s palaces.

Prof. Jeff Kingston, director of Asian research at the University of Temple in Tokyo, told the BBC that this is unlikely to be “great success in healing the internal party.”

Takaichi belongs to the LDP faction, which believes that “the reason LDP support has needed itself is that it has lost its right -wing DNA,” he added.

“I think she is in a good position to regain the voters of the right wing, but at the expense of the wider popular attractiveness if they enter the national elections.”

Thus, he is a longtime admirer of the First Women’s Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Now she is closer to the performance of her iron lady ambition.

But many voters of women do not see her as an advocate for progress.

“She calls herself Margaret Thatcher in Japan. With regard to fiscal discipline, she is anything but Thatcher,” said Prof. Kingston.

“But as a Thatcher she is not a very healer. I don’t think she has done much to enable women.”

Takaichi is an unwavering conservative who has long opposed the legislation that allows women to keep their maiden names after marriage, saying it is against tradition. She is also against a sex marriage.

The protégé of the late former leader Shinzo Abe, Otchi vowed to return his economic vision, known as abenomics – which includes high fiscal costs and cheap loans.

The LDP veteran is hazardous in terms of security and aims to review the pacifist constitution of Japan.

She is also a regular visitor to the disputed shrine Yasukuni, where Japan’s dead wars are memorable, including some convicted war criminals.

It will probably be confirmed by Parliament, though it does not automatically like its predecessors, since the ruling party is in a much more lavish position, which has now lost its majority in both houses.