Here’s how the LDP leader remade Japan’s ruling coalition to become the country’s first female Prime Minister.

Japan's Parliament elected ultraconservative Sanae Takaichi as the country's first female prime minister Tuesday, a day after her struggling party struck a coalition deal with a new partner expected ...

Mrs Takaichi, 64, won 237 of the 465 votes cast in the lower house of the Diet, a narrow victory that underlines the difficulties ahead for a prime minister who considers Margaret Thatcher a heroine.