{"id":88396,"date":"2025-10-20T10:20:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T05:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=88396"},"modified":"2025-10-20T10:20:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T05:20:29","slug":"japan-set-for-new-coalition-and-first-woman-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/japan-set-for-new-coalition-and-first-woman-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan set for new coalition and first woman PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO: Japan\u2019s ruling LDP will sign a coalition deal later Monday, its new partner party said, paving the way for Sanae Takaichi to become the country\u2019s first woman premier and lifting the Nikkei to a new record.<\/p>\n<p>The 11th-hour announcement by the Japan Innovation Party (JIP) came just a day before the lower house was due to vote on Takaichi\u2019s appointment as the fifth prime minister in as many years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter giving it careful thought last night, I telephoned (LDP) president Takaichi this morning to reach a coalition agreement,\u201d said Hirofumi Yoshimura, JIP co-head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt 6:00 pm, we will formally sign the agreement,\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Takaichi, 64, seen as a China hawk and traditionalist from the right wing of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), won the party leadership this month.<\/p>\n<p>But her bid to become premier was derailed by the collapse of the LDP\u2019s coalition with the Komeito party after 26 years.<\/p>\n<p>Komeito said the LDP had failed to tighten party funding rules following a damaging slush fund scandal.<\/p>\n<p>It was also unnerved by Takaichi\u2019s previous harsh rhetoric on China and her regular visits to a Tokyo shrine that honors Japan\u2019s war dead, including war criminals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO: Japan\u2019s ruling LDP will sign a coalition deal later Monday, its new partner party said, paving the way for Sanae Takaichi to become the country\u2019s first woman premier and lifting the Nikkei to a new record. The 11th-hour announcement by the Japan Innovation Party (JIP) came just a day before the lower house was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":88416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88417,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88396\/revisions\/88417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}