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How Takaichi Commands Global Attention

Since becoming Japan’s first female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi has been labeled a radical, a reflationist, a neo-militarist, a female leader who is holding women back. Most of these labels range from inaccurate to nonsensical. But what’s undeniable is that she has made the Japanese premiership feel relevant to a degree it hasn’t for years, Bloomberg…

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