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RazorbackExpat

(955 posts) Sat Oct 4, 2025, 03:27 PM Oct 2025

Japan was also poised to have its first female prime minister back in 1989

when Takako Doi, the then-leader of the Japan Socialist Party, came within a hair's breadth of toppling the scandal-ridden LDP's grip on power, but eventually came up short.