HEADLINE: Takaichi Sanae Elected LDP Head, Faces Coalition Challenge to Become Japan's First Female Prime Minister GUEST NAME: Lance Gatling SUMMARY: John Batchelor speaks with Lance Gatling about Takaichi Sanae being elected head of Japan's LDP, position

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HEADLINE: Takaichi Sanae Elected LDP Head, Faces Coalition Challenge to Become Japan's First Female Prime Minister GUEST NAME: Lance Gatling SUMMARY: John Batchelor speaks with Lance Gatling about Takaichi Sanae being elected head of Japan's LDP, positioning her to potentially become the first female Prime Minister. A conservative figure, she supports visits to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine. Her immediate challenge is forming a majority coalition, as the junior partner Komeito disagrees with her conservative positions and social policies. President Trump praised her election, signaling potential for strong bilateral relations.

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0:00.0	This is CBS. Hi in the World. I'm John Batchel. Gordon Chang at Gordon G. Chang, my colleague and co-hosts, and we're very pleased to go to Tokyo, to our longtime colleague, Lance Gatling, a principal of nexial research, to help us understand the very dynamic news from Tokyo. Not only is the market moving up, not only is
0:23.7	Mitsubishi heavy been gaining well, the first day was 11%. Not only does there seem to be a spirit
0:29.8	of risk and bounce in Tokyo, but Takeichi Sinai, now the head of the LDP, the largest party in the legislature, and entrained to become the first female prime minister of Japan.
0:46.2	Why and how and when is the story.
0:49.2	Lance, a very good day to you.
0:51.2	Taki Tsi Sani was in a cabinet previously.
0:53.7	She's associated with the late
0:56.1	Mr. Abe, the prime minister who was assassinated. However, the question here for all of us is,
1:04.5	who is Takichi Senai that she would satisfy the term conservative in the LDP, and what does this mean conservative in
1:12.1	Tokyo in the 21st century? Good evening to you. Good evening, John, Gordon. As I think I
1:19.7	mentioned several months ago, there are an interesting group of people standing for the position
1:26.4	that Prime Minister and head of the LDP, Isheba,
1:32.2	resigned. And now he still stands as the prime minister in order to not bring the government to
1:37.2	a halt, but he's set the date that he's going to obviously leave. So there was a round of, say, seven people.
1:48.1	And the son of the former prime minister, Koizumi, actually, and Takeichi son, and
1:56.4	Takehichi son came out pretty close.
1:59.7	One was a little stronger in the upper house and the other
2:03.3	a little bit stronger in the lower house. But she won handily in the second round. She's 64 years old.
2:13.3	She is sometimes seen as sort of a free spirit to the chagrin of liberals and people who hurl insults at the Japanese for all sorts of things regarding their version of conservatism.
2:28.4	She was sort of a free spirit, a motorcycle rider, drummer, and a heavy metal band.
2:35.5	It worked on TV, worked in a variety of things,
2:38.5	and got into the diet, lower house membership in 1993, I think it was,
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