Mieko Nakabayashi is a professor of Political Science at Waseda University, President of the Tokyo Foundation, and former Member of Japan's House of Representatives (2009-2012). She spent nearly a decade on the U.S. Senate Budget Committee under Senator Pete Domenici.
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Takaichi's rise symbolizes LDP's illusory politics and inability to change
The hardliner must quickly prove she can govern
Sanae Takaichi, the newly elected leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, poses with several of her colleagues in Tokyo on Oct. 4. The party's embrace of Takaichi reveals the resilience and fragility of Japan's political order. (Photo by Marina Inoue)
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