# Liberal Democratic Party leader, Sanae Takaichi, has made history by becoming Japan’s first female prime minister. The 64-year-old, who is known as Japan’s ‘Iron Lady’, won 237 votes in the 465-seat lower chamber of Parliament. The vote comes after her party agreed to a coalition with the right-wing Japan Innovation Party. A big fan of the UK’s first woman prime minister Margaret Thatcher, Takaichi has long been a staunch conservative, opposing same-sex marriages and a growing movement to allow married couples to use separate surnames.
Sanae Takaichi makes history as Japan’s first female prime minister