Can Sanae Takaichi govern Japan on star power alone?
By 2.30pm on Saturday, five days into the shortest election campaign in postwar Japanese history and after half an hour of warm-up by the local Liberal Democratic Party candidate, the 3,000-strong crowd filling the Kanagawa Science Park finally got what it came for. Sanae Takaichi, arch-conservative, populist and on course for a possible landslide this … Read more









