Sanae Takaichi
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Sanae Takaichi is a Japanese politician who has been Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party since October 2025. She is the first woman to hold either of these positions
Official portrait, 2025
Takaichi in 1998
Takaichi giving a speech for LDP presidential election in Nagoya, September 2025
Takaichi is elected Prime Minister by the Diet, 21 October 2025
Shigeru Ishiba
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Shigeru Ishiba is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party from 2024 until his resignation in 2025. He has represented Tottori 1st in t
Sanae Takaichi
…for the party leadership in the 2024 leadership election, where she came in first in the first round but narrowly lost in a runoff to her predecessor Shigeru Ishiba. She ran for the third time in the 2025 leadership election and placed first in both rounds of voting, defeating Shinjirō Koizumi, and becoming the…
Official portrait, 2024
Ishiba, third row, second from left, with the other members of the Yasuo Fukuda Cabinet, 26 September 2007
Ishiba and US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in Tokyo on 15 November 2003
Ishiba with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe and Yoshihide Suga in September 2014