According to Xinhua News Agency, sanae takaichi, the former Japanese minister in charge of economic security, won the presidential election of the Liberal Democratic Party held on the 4th and was elected as the 29th president of the Liberal Democratic Party.
As the self-government party still retains the position of the largest party in Congress, he is expected to become Japan's first female prime minister in the prime minister nomination election a few days later.
In 1961, she was born to an ordinary family in Nara County, Japan, and was admitted to two top private universities at the same time, but eventually chose to attend the public Kōbe University for family reasons.
After graduating from the university, Gao Xiaoping entered the famous Panji Political School, which was the cornerstone of Japanese politicians, and trained many government ministers and congressmen.
In 1993, Takashi Saami was elected as a member of the Japanese House of Representatives for the first time and officially entered the political arena. She initially ran as a non-partisan, later joined the New Frontier Party and eventually joined the Liberal Democratic Party.
Takaichi sanae has a deep relationship with former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and their policy ideas are similar. Therefore, she is also called "the female version of Abe" by Japanese media, and Shinzo Abe's strong support is the key to taiichi sanae's political rise.
As Prime Minister for the first time in 2006, Shinzo Abe was appointed Secretary of State for the Cabinet for the first time.In 2014, she was also appointed Secretary of General Affairs, not only as Japan's first female Secretary of General Affairs, but also as the longest-running Secretary of General Affairs to date.
Takaichi sanae's political stance is extremely conservative and right-leaning. She has visited the Yasukuni Shrine, which enshrines Class-A war criminals of World War II, many times as a cabinet minister. The most recent visit was on August 15th, 2025, the day of Japan's surrender.
On the military side, Gao Xiaobo advocated the complete subversion of the peaceful constitution and demanded greater powers for the Self-Defense Force.
She not only publicly advocated amending Article 9 of Japan's Peace Constitution in an attempt to regain Japan's right to declare war and achieve so-called "national normalization"; she also advocated significantly increasing the defense budget, promoting the implementation of "collective self-defense rights", and strengthening "enemy base strike capabilities". The analysis pointed out that this substantial expansion of the foreign military role is far from the traditional "purely defensive" stance. (Xinhua Agency, China News Network)