Satsuki Katayama is Japan’s first female finance minister, and also one of the few in her job in recent decades that previously worked as an official at the powerful bureaucracy.

Sanae Takaichi has become Japan's first female prime minister, a significant milestone in the country's male-dominated political landscape.

Sanae Takaichi took office as Japan's first female prime minister, but her surprisingly male-dominated cabinet and socially conservative track record have left some women ambivalent in a country that lags on gender equality.

Japan’s first female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, appointed just two other women to her cabinet, well below the high of five in other recent administrations but notable for her nomination of the nation’s first female finance minister.