On the 4th, Takaichi Sanae, the new president of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party, said there is a mountain of work to do and said many policies must be carried out quickly.
President Takaichi was elected in the Liberal Democratic Party leadership vote held in the afternoon that day, defeating Koizumi Shinjiro, the minister of agriculture, forestry and fisheries. In remarks after her victory, she said she would discard the term "work-life balance," and stressed, I will work and work and work and work and keep working.
President Takaichi said she would turn the anxieties of many people into hope and revive the Liberal Democratic Party. Toward her predecessor, Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru, she said, I pay respect for opening the way to establish the Disaster Prevention Agency and revitalize local regions.
President Takaichi is expected to be inaugurated as the new prime minister after a prime minister nomination vote in an extraordinary Diet session to be held around the 15th, succeeding Prime Minister Ishiba. In Japan's parliamentary system, when the ruling party's leader changes, the Diet elects a prime minister again.
Japan's Diet landscape is a minority ruling party against a majority opposition, but because the opposition is divided, the new Liberal Democratic Party president, the largest party, is highly likely to win the prime minister nomination vote.