Takaichi Sanae: Japan's First Woman Prime Minister

237 votes for Takaichi Sanae ( 高市 早苗) on the first ballot in the Lower House. It's official, she will become Japan's first woman prime minister. Interestingly, she worked for Democratic (and liberal) Congresswoman Pat Schroeder of Colorado as a congressional fellow in the late 1980s, when Takaichi was in her mid-twenties. Either she was still forming her political views or she didn't know enough…