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JAPAN'S TAKAICHI FACES EARLY TEST OF DEFENCE AMBITIONS WITH TRUMP VISIT

  • NEWS Desk Global
  • 12 hours ago
  • 1 min read

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Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's new hardline coalition partner unshackles her security ambitions and gives U.S. President Donald Trump room to press for military spending, but her fragile government may put a brake on what she can do.

An admirer of conservative British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Takaichi was sworn in on Tuesday as head of a government that is two votes shy of a majority in the decision-making 465-seat lower house.

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