On the 21st, the new cabinet of Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s first female prime minister in the nation’s constitutional history, took shape. The new cabinet will officially launch after Prime Minister Takaichi receives her appointment certificate from Emperor Naruhito.

Japan's parliament has voted in the country's first ever female prime minister. Sanae Takaichi won 237 votes in the 465-seat lower chamber of parliament, and is also set to secure a majority in the less powerful upper house before being sworn in later today.

Japan got its first woman Prime Minister tonight after Sanae Takaichi, a China hawk and social conservative, forged an 11th-hour coalition deal.

Sanae Takaichi, known as Japan's "Iron Lady," has been elected as the country's first woman prime minister, sending domestic stocks soaring to fresh highs. Takaichi, a conservative and the protégé of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe,

Lawmakers in the Japan Innovation Party (Ishin) are set to meet this afternoon to decide whether to form an alliance with the ruling Liberal Democratic Party that would likely lead to Sanae Takaichi becoming the country’s first female prime minister.

TOKYO (AFP) — Japan's ruling LDP and its junior partner signed a coalition deal Monday, paving the way for Sanae Takaichi to become the country's first woman premier. The 11th-hour agreement with the Japan Innovation Party came just a day before the lower house was due to vote on Takaichi's appointment as the fifth prime minister in as many years.

Liberal Democratic Party leader Sanae Takaichi looks set to become Japan's first female prime minister after the right-leaning Japan Innovation Party, known as Ishin, said it was ready to back her premiership.

Yuichi Yamazaki/Pool via REUTERS TOKYO (Reuters) -Anticipation grew on Monday that Sanae Takaichi will become Japan's first female premier, with the backing of the right-wing opposition Japan Innovation Party,