[속보] 日 차기 총리에 다카이치 전 경제안보상Japan's Takaichi set to become country's first fe

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[속보] 日 차기 총리에 다카이치 전 경제안보상

Japan's Takaichi set to become country's first female PM

일본 다카이치, 일본 최초의 여성 총리 취임 예정

By Tim Kelly, John Geddie and Satoshi Sugiyama

Sat, October 4, 2025 at 3:31 PM GMT+9 Yahoo

Newly-elected leader of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Sanae Takaichi bows in front of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba after winning the LDP leadership election in Tokyo, Japan, October 4, 2025. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/Pool

By Tim Kelly, John Geddie and Satoshi Sugiyama

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's ruling party picked conservative nationalist Sanae Takaichi as its new head on Saturday, putting her on course to become the country's first female prime minister.

The Liberal Democratic Party elected Takaichi, 64, to regain trust from a public angered by rising prices and drawn to opposition groups promising big stimulus and clampdowns on foreigners.

A vote in parliament to choose a prime minister to replace Shigeru Ishiba is expected to be held on October 15.

The new LDP president is likely to succeed Shigeru Ishiba as leader of the world's fourth-biggest economy because the party, which has governed Japan for almost all the postwar period, is the biggest in parliament. But this is not assured as the party and its coalition partner lost their majorities in both houses under Ishiba in the past year.

Takaichi, the only woman among the five LDP candidates, beat a challenge from the more moderate Shinjiro Koizumi, 44, who was bidding to become the country's youngest leader in the modern era.

A former internal affairs minister with an expansionary economic agenda, Takaichi inherits a party in crisis.

Various other parties, including the fiscally expansionist Democratic Party for the People and the anti-immigration Sanseito have been steadily luring voters, especially younger ones, away from the LDP.

"Recently, I have heard harsh voices from across the country saying we don’t know what the LDP stands for anymore," said Takaichi in her speech before the second-round vote.

"That sense of urgency drove me. I wanted to turn people’s anxieties about their daily lives and the future into hope," she added.

Takaichi, who says her hero is Margaret Thatcher, Britain's first female prime minister, offered a starker vision for change than Koizumi and is potentially more disruptive.

An advocate of late premier Shinzo Abe's "Abenomics" strategy to jolt the economy with aggressive spending and easy monetary policy, she has previously criticised the Bank of Japan's interest rate increases.

Such a policy shift could spook investors worried about one of the world's biggest debt loads.

Takaichi has also raised the possibility of redoing an investment deal with U.S. President Donald Trump that lowered his punishing tariffs in return for Japanese taxpayer-backed investment.

Her nationalistic positions - such as her regular visits to the Yasukuni shrine to Japan's war dead, viewed by some Asian neighbours as a symbol of its past militarism - may rile South Korea and China.

She also favours revising Japan's pacifist postwar constitution and suggested this year that Japan could form a "quasi-security alliance" with Taiwan, the democratically governed island claimed by China.

If elected, Takaichi said she would travel overseas more regularly than her predecessor to spread the word that "Japan is Back!"

Takaichi is expected to hold a press conference around 0900 GMT.

(Reporting by Tim Kelly, John Geddie, Chang-Ran Kim, Satoshi Sugiyama, Makiko Yamazaki and Joseph Campbell; Editing by William Mallard)

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[속보] 日 차기 총리에 다카이치 전 경제안보상

김보경 기자 입력 2025.10.04. 15:00 조선일보

4일 결선 투표에서 일본 자민당 총재로 선출된 다카이치 사나에 전 경제안보상이 지난달 24일 일본 도쿄에서 자민당 총재 선거 유세를 하고 있다./연합뉴스

일본 차기 총리를 뽑는 집권 자민당 총재 선거에서 다카이치 사나에(64) 전 경제안보상이 1위를 차지해 역대 최초 여성 총재가 탄생했다. 내각제 국가인 일본에서는 다수당 대표가 총리가 되며 현재 1당은 자민당이다. 큰 이변이 없다면 다카이치는 오는 15일 임시국회의 총리 지명 선거에서 차기 총리로 선출될 전망이다.

이날 선거 결과는 여론조사를 비롯한 사전 예상을 뒤엎었다. 앞서 마이니치신문, 요미우리신문 등 일본 유력 매체의 판세 조사에 따르면 자민당 지지자와 의원들은 고이즈미를 더 지지하는 것으로 나타났다. 하지만 4일 오전 당원·당우(黨友) 투표에서 다카이치가 119표(42.1%)를 얻으면서 이변이 시작됐다. 이어진 의원 투표에서 고이즈미가 선전하면서 결선 투표에 올랐지만, 결선 투표 합산 결과 342표 중 다카이치가 185표, 고이즈미가 156표를 얻으면서 다카이치가 신임 총재로 선출됐다.

결선 투표에 앞서 다카이치는 선거에 나서게 된 경위에 대해 “일본의 지금과 미래를 위해 자민당이 바뀌지 않으면 안 된다. 그 강한 위기감 때문”이라고 했다.

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