Japan Politics Takaichi

FILE - Sanae Takaichi, newly appointed Internal Affairs and Communications minister, enters the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

Japan's former Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi attends a press conference at the parliament in Tokyo, on Sept. 19, 2025. (Chiaki Ueda/Kyodo News via AP)

FILE - Japanese lawmakers, including Sanae Takaichi, center left, visit the Yasukuni Shrine to pay respect to the war dead on the day of the 69th anniversary of the end of the World War II, in Tokyo, on Aug. 15, 2014. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)

FILE - Newly-appointed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, front row third from right, poses with his Cabinet members after an attestation ceremony for his Cabinet at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, on Sept. 26, 2006. Front row from left: Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Bunmei Ibuki, Environment Minister Masatoshi Wakabayashi, Foreign Minister Taro Aso, Abe, Defense Agency Director General Fumio Kyuma and Finance Minister Koji Omi. Second row from left: Justice Minister Jinen Nagase, Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Hakuo Yanagisawa, Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Yoshihide Suga, Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Tetsuzo Fuyushiba and Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry Akira Amari and Economy and Banking Minister Hiroko Ota. Third row from left: Okinawa and Northern Territories, Innovation, Gender Equality and Food Safety Minister Sanae Takaichi, National Public Safety Commission Chairman Kensei Mizote, Administrative Reforms Minister Genichiro Sata, unidentified, unidentified, Toshikatsu Matsuoka, Yuji Yamamoto, unidentified and Chief Cabinet Secretary, also in charge of resolving North Korea's abductions of Japanese citizens Yasuhisa Shiozaki. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye, File)