Takaichi, a Patriot but Not a Bellicose Politician
The first female prime minister has been just elected in the Japanese Diet. Sanae Takaichi (1964 -) has been elected to the post.
Takaichi was first elected to a Diet member in 1993. She has continued to work as a politician since then, though she failed to gain a seat in the Diet in 2003. In 2004 she married a Diet member who had been once divorced from another woman. In 2005, Sanae Takaichi got re-elected and joined the Cabinet under the then prime minister Shinzo Abe.
In 2017 she wan a divorce from her husband, but in 2021 she remarried the same man. Her husband lost a Diet seat in 2021 and suffered cerebral infarction in 2025; he is still nursed by his wife, Sanae Takaichi, who has just become the prime minister of Japan.
Takaichi is regarded as a rightist leader hated by China and pro-Chinese forces in Japan. Therefore China and pro-Chinese forces in Japan are said to have made full efforts to hinder Takaichi's success in her fight around the seat of the prime minister of Japan.
Especially her chronic visit to Yasukuni Shrine where the deceased Japanese soldiers in WWII are enshrined is believed to show her right-wing tendency. So, China who fought Japan in WWII watches out for her behaviors. But, Takaichi's political stance to the Yasukuni issue is just her expression of love to Japan and the Japanese people and not willingness to promote Japan's aggression toward China and other nations. Yasaukuni Shrine is the place to show respect for the deceased soldiers who fought and died for their own country like Arlington National Cemetery in the U.S. So, Takaichi is a patriot but not a bellicose politician.
As Takaichi was once a student in Matsushita School of Government and Management after graduation of Koba University, she is enthusiastic for pursuing economic and political issues. She was once sent to the U.S. by Matsushita School and worked there as a congressional fellow for two years. So, Takaichi's supporters expect that she will get along with President Trump.
Japan was once governed by a queen named Himiko in the third century before establishment of imperial regime according to an old Chinese history book. So, Sanae Takaichi is the second female head of Japan. And, it is believed that Himiko's capital was in current Nara Prefecture that is the constituency for Takaichi.
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Luke 10
21 At that time Jesus, full of joy through the Holy Spirit, said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this is what you were pleased to do.
22 “All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”
23 Then he turned to his disciples and said privately, “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see.
24 For I tell you that many prophets and kings wanted to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.”