{"id":232348,"date":"2026-02-06T12:04:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T08:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=232348"},"modified":"2026-02-06T13:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T09:57:11","slug":"trump-backs-japans-iron-lady-ahead-of-upcoming-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/232348\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump backs Japan\u2019s \u2018Iron Lady\u2019 ahead of upcoming elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

US President Donald Trump gave his “total endorsement” of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi ahead of a national election in Japan on Sunday, adding he looked forward to hosting her at the White House next month, Reuters<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

Japan’s first female premier, a conservative who said she draws inspiration from Britain’s “Iron Lady” Margaret Thatcher, was already expected to deliver a solid win for her ruling coalition, according to opinion polls.<\/p>\n

Takaichi’s Liberal Democratic Party and its partner, the Japan Innovation Party, known as Ishin, could capture around 300 seats in the 465-seat lower house of parliament, the polls show, well up from the razor-thin majority they now control.<\/p>\n

On Jan. 23, Takaichi dissolved the lower house of Parliament, scheduling a snap election for Feb. 8.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

US President Donald Trump gave his “total endorsement” of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi ahead of a national election in Japan on Sunday, adding he looked forward to hosting her at the White House next month, Reuters writes. Japan’s first female premier, a conservative who said she draws inspiration from Britain’s “Iron Lady” Margaret Thatcher, was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":232306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232348","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=232348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232350,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232348\/revisions\/232350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}