{"id":198971,"date":"2025-10-21T18:08:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T14:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=198971"},"modified":"2025-10-22T16:39:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T12:39:35","slug":"who-is-japans-iron-lady-first-female-pm-in-countrys-history-elected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/198971\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Japan\u2019s \u2018Iron Lady\u2019? First female PM in country\u2019s history elected"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In a historic parliamentary vote on Tuesday, Sanae Takaichi, 64, was elected as Japan’s first ever female prime minister, the BBC<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

A former TV host, and once a drummer in a heavy metal band, Takaichi has held senior government roles, including minister for economic security, state minister for trade and industry, and a record-breaking tenure as minister for internal affairs and communications.<\/p>\n

This year, on her third attempt, she secured victory and became Japan’s first female prime minister after she was confirmed by parliament.<\/p>\n

“My goal is to become the Iron Lady,” Takaichi told a group of school children during her recent campaign.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a historic parliamentary vote on Tuesday, Sanae Takaichi, 64, was elected as Japan’s first ever female prime minister, the BBC writes. A former TV host, and once a drummer in a heavy metal band, Takaichi has held senior government roles, including minister for economic security, state minister for trade and industry, and a record-breaking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":198422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,43,98,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198972,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198971\/revisions\/198972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}