Japan’s embossed ruling party is now a new leader, Sanaaye Takachi, who is a radical conservative, who is ready to become the first female Prime Minister of the country.
His victory in the leadership of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) came after winning a majority in the runoff vote against Agriculture Minister Shinjiro Koizumi.
The most powerful kingmaker of LDP and a former Prime Minister, 85 -year -old Taro ASO supported Takachi and allegedly impressed Saturday’s party vote in his favor.
Takachi is now expected to appoint ASO, who is the Deputy Prime Minister as a political ally of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
The popularity of Japan’s ruling party takes a hit
LDP members hope that Takachi stopped the decline of a party that has ruled Japan for the post of Second World War.
Under the previous party leader and current Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, the ruling LDP lost its majority in both houses of Parliament, increasing the public dissatisfied faction with an unbalanced standard of life and growing immigration.
From LDP, Ishiba’s predecessor Fumio Kishida stumbled on a donation scam, which strengthened public notion that LDP did not care enough about the people.
After Takaichi’s victory, the new LDP leader prepared to rebuild the party by gathering all the generations of Japanese people.
It is expected to have a vote expected to confirm him as Prime Minister for 15 October.
Political successor for Shinzo Abe
Takachi had several tenure as a cabinet minister, including tenure as the Internal Minister and Economic Security Minister. The 64-year-old, sees himself as a political successor of Shinzo Abe, who is in six consecutive elections for his nationalist agenda and development-oriented economic policies. He is expected to move forward with his market -friendly policies and the country with his traditionalist vision.
Takaichi, then Britain’s first female Prime Minister praises Margaret Thatcher, and sees herself as the “Iron Lady” of Japan.
But his radical orthodox stand has criticized his opponents so fast, allegedly referred to as “Taliban Taqachi” with former premiere Kishida.
He is a war -time history revisionist and China Hawk. So she regularly visits Yasukuni Shrine, which she considers a symbol of neighboring militants of Japan, thought she has refused to say if he would continue to do so.
In a column on his website published in 2004, Takachi justified Japan’s role in World War II, saying that Tokyo was “protectively teasing.”
He called for a criminal offense with a prison sentence to burn the Japanese flag.
As an internal minister under the then Prime Minister Abe, he threatened the television station with his license dismissal, if he did not break the government line.
Like Abe, she wants to “back to top” by increasing its economic growth. Japan, with its 124 million people, is currently the fourth largest economy in the world behind the US, China and Germany.
Controversial stand
Takaichi is stuck with old -fashioned ideas on women and gender equality, Stanage in favor of the male party heavyweight.
She supports the male-priest succession of the royal family, For men and women, traditional family values see equal pay as a threat to family values, and support the 19th-Set Civil Law on female surnames that see many older.
In Japan, married couples are required by law to choose a surname, and it is an undesirable rule that the woman takes her husband’s surname. Takaichi spoke against reforms that would allow the joints to keep their old name after margin.
Recently, he has asked for difficult policies on immigration, which became a major issue in the race in Japanese politics amidst the rise of the anti -immigrant Sessito Party.
Echoing Sansito’s warnings about foreigners, Takachi described the speech of his first official campaign about a anecdote, in which the tourists allegedly kicked the holy deer in their hometown of Nara, without giving evidence.
In addition, Takachi promised to break the rule of breaking visitors and immigrants, amidst a relative spike of new people in traditional homogeneous Japan.
Practical rule or iron fist?
The new leader is now expected to reversed LDP’s popularity by adding voters of ring-wing popular parties like Sanseito. At the same time, Takachi is already giving concessions to strengthen its power within her party.
Even before his election, he deployed himself as a “central-conservative” to win over LDP Moderate. And after his victory, he hit a practical tone, which can be the sea as an attempt to keep his current liberal coalition partner Komeito without isolating his government’s potential new supporters.
Takaichi has requested the opposition so much that finishing the 50 -year gasoline tax was a priority to deal with inflation. He has called for a strong army, emphasizing the importance of the tripartite alliance with the US and South Korea, removing concerns that the recently repaired relationships with Seoul could be due to its nationalist stand.
In another indication abroad, Takachi said that it would respect tariffs and investment agreements between the government of the current Prime Minister, Ishiba and the administration of US President Donald Trump.
Is he a specific ultraconsorwaist?
Not all aspects of Takachi’s life fit into his image as an unrelated conservative.
During her student days, she was a drummer in a heavy-rate band and a motorbike rider.
Bachelor of Kobe University, Taqachi, along with a degree in business management, attended a fellowship program in 1987, which allowed him to work in the US Congress.
Hence the programs were hosted at Liberal TV station Asahi.
The upcoming Prime Minister recently spoke openly about his struggles with symptoms of menopause and emphasized the need to educate men about women health to help women in school and work.
Takaichi has no children of her own and did not marry at the age of 43, when she married LDP member Taku Yamamoto, with three children adopted.
The couple divorced due to different political views in 2017, but remarried in December 2021. During her first marriage, Takachi took her husband’s surname. However, after her divorce and then in 2021, her husband took her, Taku Takachi became. In this way, Japan’s new “Iron Lady” managed to live with her world vision of a shared family without renouncing power balance in her marriage.
This article was original in German.