{"id":144326,"date":"2025-10-25T08:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T08:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/144326\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T08:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T08:49:11","slug":"from-iron-maiden-to-the-iron-lady-japans-first-female-prime-minister-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/144326\/","title":{"rendered":"From Iron Maiden to the Iron Lady: Japan&#8217;s first female prime minister | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/sky-news-daily\/id951048357\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\ud83d\udc49 Listen to Sky News Daily on your podcast app \ud83d\udc48<\/a>        <\/p>\n<p>A former television presenter and heavy metal drummer has become the first woman to be elected prime minister of Japan. Sanae Takaichi is known for her right-wing views and cites Margaret Thatcher as an inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s not just her political beliefs that are controversial &#8211; Ms Takaichi has a love of hard rock and motorbikes, despite her deeply conservative background.<\/p>\n<p>Why has it taken so long for Japan to elect a female PM? And what challenges does she face domestically, as well as on the world stage?<\/p>\n<p>Niall is joined by Dr Kristin Surak, associate professor of political sociology at the London School of Economics and a leading expert on Japanese politics.<\/p>\n<p>Producers: Natalie Ktena &amp; Tom Gillespie<\/p>\n<p>Editor: Mike Bovill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udc49 Listen to Sky News Daily on your podcast app \ud83d\udc48 A former television presenter and heavy metal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-144326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latestnews","15":"tag-main-news","16":"tag-mainnews","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-topstories","20":"tag-world","21":"tag-world-news","22":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115433948179534375","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}