Well, now it's official-- Sanae Takaichi is the first female PM of Japan

[fujiyamasan]

4. It's really something to see

Japanese society is traditionally known to be very patriarchal, so her rise is pretty impressive. Gender roles there are also fairly well defined in my experience, at least they were when I worked at a Japanese compnay twenty years ago.

I wouldn’t have expected them to have a female heading their country before the us.

Being that she’s a conservative I don’t expect her political position to bring other women into more political power or give them more representation however.

It will be interesting to see if Trump can screw up this relationship as badly as he has with other allies so far.