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Out of Japan, the country is set to have
its first ever female prime minister.
It's after in the last few minutes,
Sanai Takahichi won the ruling
Conservative Party leadership election.
And these are live pictures from Tokyo
where you can see her there on stage.
She has been talking. Let's go live to
our Tokyo correspondent, Shima Kil. Uh
Shima, history made. What's she been
saying?
A history-making moment here for Japan
as the country is set to have its first
ever female prime minister. A moment I
would say that many Japanese people,
including Japanese women, thought would
never come. Sai Takayichi has gone for
the leadership um of the ruling party
before and she hadn't won. This year was
her time in the limelight. She has long
been um an admirer of Britain's first
ever prime minister, the late Margaret
Thatcher. And now she's ever closer to
um fulfilling that Iron Lady uh
ambition. She's been speaking after uh
the announcement of her victory, saying
a new era has come to the LDP. One would
argue that a new era has come to
Japanese politics who's never had a
woman leader ever before in its history.
She also said that we need to change the
LDP so people's anxiety turns to hope.
Looking there into the difficult times
that Japanese households have been
struggling with, especially with the
cost of living crisis and stagnant a
stagnant economy and stagnant wages. One
of the things that jumped at me is when
she said, "I'm getting rid of the word
work life balance because I plan to work
very hard and I want everyone around me
to work very hard." She says that my
happiness is overshadowed by the
responsibility that I now have and
indeed it is a big responsibility for
the new LDP leader who is likely not
automatically but likely to be confirmed
by parliament. She has to unite a
fractured party. She has to restore uh
the public's uh trust into the LDP that
has ruled the country for most of its
post-war era, but that has really been
marred by a series of scandals and two
very humiliating defeats um that had
them lose power, sorry, lose control in
both houses of parliament. Mr. Akaichi
may be the first ever female prime
minister in a sea of men that control
Japan's politics, but many women voters
will tell you that they don't see her as
a sign of progress because she is a
staunch conservative. For example, she's
long opposed the legislation for women
to keep their maiden name after
marriage. She says this is against
tradition. She is also against same-sex
marriage and hasn't changed her stance
on that. She softened her tone a tone a
little bit when it came to women's
issues during this campaign, saying that
she will as prime minister uh work more
to for child care costs um to alleviate
that um for women to be able to work and
take care of their children. The LDP
veteran is a protig of the late uh Prime
Minister Shinszo Abbey. She's hawkish
when it comes to security. She wants to
revise the country's um pacifist
constitution. So anticipate some
friction on that. She's also a regular
visitor of the controversial Yasukuni
shrine which has which where the Japan's
war dead are buried but also convicted
war criminals. So she is a controversial
figure but right now Japan is set to
have its first ever female prime
minister and that in itself is a
historical moment.
>> Absolutely. Sha live in Tokyo. Thank you
very much.
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