The 64-year-old Takaichi won the election after she received 237 votes in the 465-member Lower House and succeeded Shigeru Ishiba, who resigned last month after the electoral setbacks of his party. 

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Who is Sanae Takaichi? The ‘Iron Lady’ and first female Prime Minister of Japan