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The country’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Saturday voted Takaichi to be the party’s next leader, which is also effectively Japan’s next Prime Minister, setting her up to be the first woman to lead the country.

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Sanae Takaichi’s rise is both a breakthrough and a paradox. She is about to become Japan’s first woman prime minister, yet her conservative views on gender and society suggest limits to how transformative her leadership will be for women’s equality.

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s embattled governing party now has its new leader, former Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi, a hard-line conservative who is poised to become the country’s first female prime minister.