Japan’s first female leader Sanae Takaichi is channelling Margaret Thatcher

Sanae Takaichi, who recently became Japan’s first female prime minister, is already making waves around the world for her staunch conservative politics – and sense of style. Both were on full display during the 64-year-old’s meeting with US president Donald Trump in Tokyo on Tuesday. Takaichi, of the Liberal Democratic Party, is said to be a strong proponent of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe’s school of politics. Trump, who previously called the conservative and nationalist politician...