Who is the Japanese “Iron Lady” Sanae that?

Respected Figure: Baroness Margaret Thatcher. Personal purpose: To become the iron lady of Japan.

After two unsuccessful attempts, he finished Takuchi finally achieved his long-standing ambition.

The 64-year-old was elected leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP) at his 70th anniversary-puts her on a course to become the first female prime minister of the country.

A former government minister and television presenter and after a drummer in a heavy metal group, she will now face the challenge of leading a party that is still struggling to regain the voter’s confidence after scandals, while responding to the right right to the right.

Born in Nara Prefecture in 1961, so, so -to -herish’s father is an office worker and her mother policeman. Politics was far from her upbringing.

Once an avid heavy metal drummer, she was known for carrying many sticks because she would break them during intense drums. She was also a diver and enthusiast of the car – her beloved Toyota Supra is already on display at a museum in Nara.

Before entering politics, Thanchi worked briefly as a television presenter.

Her political inspiration came in the 1980s, during the height of commercial friction in the United States-Japan. Determined to understand American perceptions of Japan, she works in the service of democracy Patricia Schroeder, a congress, known for her criticism of Japan.

Thus, he saw Americans mix Japanese, Chinese and Korean and cuisine, watching how Japan is often grouped with China and South Korea.

“Unless Japan can defend itself, its fate will always be at the mercy of the shallow American opinions,” she concluded.

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

She stubbornly, winning a year later and joined LDP in 1996. Since then, she has been elected MP 10 times, losing only once and building a reputation of one of the most revealed conservative voices of the party.

She has also played senior state roles, including Minister of Economic Security, State Minister for Trade and Industry and a record term as Minister of Interior and Communications.

In 2021, Takaichi first entered the LDP Leadership race, but lost to Fumio Kishida. She tried again in 2024, this time headed the first round of voting, but eventually lost to Shigeru Ishiba.

This year, with her third attempt, she provided a victory – he put her on a course to become the first Japan President after Parliament confirmed his appointment.

“My goal is to become an iron lady,” she told a group of children at school during her recent campaign.

Takaichi is an unwavering conservative who has long opposed the legislation that allows married women to preserve their maiden names, insisting that this undermines tradition. She is also against a sex marriage.

Recently, however, she softened her tone. During her campaign, she vowed to make a partial tax backer fees and offer corporate tax reliefs for companies that provide internal childcare services.

Her family and personal experience is at the heart of her policy proposals: expanding hospital health services for women, providing more recognition to household workers and improving the care of the aging society of Japan.

“I have personally experienced breastfeeding and care three times in my life,” she said. “That is why my determination has only intensified to reduce the number of people forced to leave their jobs due to care, raising children or children who refuse to attend school. I want to create a society where people do not have to give up their careers.”

The late Shinzo Abe protégé, she promised to revive her economic vision for “abenomics” for high public spending and cheap loans.

She is a regular visitor to the contradictory shrine Yasukuni, who honors the dead of Japan, including convicted war criminals.

She has also called for the alleviation of constitutional restrictions on the country’s self -defense forces, which are prohibited by offensive opportunities.

Since its founding in 1955, LDP has dominated Japanese politics, but now it has been losing its place against dissatisfaction with a slow economy, demographic decline and social discontent.

Takachi belongs to the right side of LDP, and when choosing it, LDP hopes to win conservative voters who have gravitated to the far right Sanset party.

Sanseito, which is moving on a slogan of Japan First, recently jumped from one to 15 places, removing conservative voters. LDP has lost its majority in both parliament pawns.

Takiichi herself acknowledged the problem in speech after winning the first round of vote: “We have received particularly sharp criticism from our main supporters, conservatives and party members.”

“LDP needs to change in the name of Japan’s present and future. We will always put the national interest in the first place and run the country with a sense of balance.”

Parliament is expected to confirm it as Prime Minister on October 15.