Is Japan Back?
Hardline conservative Takaichi expected to use polls mandate for dramatic change
The landslide snap election gamble in Japan of the extremely popular 64-year-old Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, a hardline conservative and nationalist who came to power less than four months ago, has far greater foreign policy implications than economic ones, despite the focus on the impact on an already ver…
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