By Tim Kelly TOKYO, Feb 9 (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s landslide election victory has quelled domestic opposition to her hardline security agenda, fueling plans to press ahead with a defense expansion that China has condemned as a return to militarism. As the scale of her government’s historic victory became clear on Sunday … Read more
TOKYO (AP) — Voting opened Sunday in parliamentary elections that Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi hopes will give her struggling party a victory big enough to push an ambitious conservative political agenda. Takaichi is very popular, but the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, which has governed Japan for most of the past seven decades, is not. … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump invited Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in a phone call Friday to visit the United States this year, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said, in what will be the ultraconservative leader’s first trip to the United States since taking office in October. The White House has yet to confirm the … Read more