Modernized rapidly after the 1868 Meiji Restoration and built an empire that ended with defeat in 1945. Under the US-drafted 1947 constitution it became a pacifist democracy with the emperor as a symbol, ruled almost continuously by the Liberal Democratic Party. Sanae Takaichi became its first woman prime minister in 2025.
Its current leader’s position on the ten Caucus dimensions.
A conservative former minister who became Japan's first woman prime minister in October 2025. She favors higher defense spending, economic stimulus and traditional family policies.
Sanae Takaichi sits in the right-authoritarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: slightly free market and leaning authoritarian. The clearest positions are strongly traditional on culture, strongly nationalist on nation and strongly strength-first on war and peace.
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