Takaichi declared ‘world's most powerful woman’ by The Economist

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi was featured as "the world's most powerful woman" in an article that ran in the latest issue of the British magazine The Economist, after she led her ruling Liberal Democratic Party to a landslide victory in a snap election.

Following the success in the Feb. 8 election for the Lower House, Takaichi, also LDP president, now "has a historic chance to transform her country," the article read. "She must not squander it."

The LDP has never won "as decisively as it did" in the Lower House election, despite the party's long-standing dominance of Japanese politics.