TOKYO (Reuters) -Formed in 2010 to shake up Japan's political establishment and loosen Tokyo's administrative stranglehold, the Japan Innovation Party, known as Ishin,

Sanae Takaichi is on track to become Japan's first female prime minister after her party secured a crucial coalition partner.

Sanae Takaichi will likely become Japan's first female prime minister, thanks to a coalition between her party and a right-wing party. She is a security hawk.

TOKYO (AFP) — Japan's ruling LDP and its junior partner signed a coalition deal Monday, paving the way for Sanae Takaichi to become the country's first woman premier. The 11th-hour agreement with the Japan Innovation Party came just a day before the lower house was due to vote on Takaichi's appointment as the fifth prime minister in as many years.

Takaichi Sanae, head of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), and Yoshimura Hirofumi, representative of the Japan Innovation Party, met at the National Diet in Tokyo at 6 p.m. on the 20th and signed a document for a coalition government.

Sanae Takaichi, the newly-elected head of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, held coalition talks on Thursday with leaders of the right-

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the Japan Innovation Party have agreed to form a coalition government, setting the stage for the country's first woman prime minister, Kyodo news agency reported on Sunday.

Lawmakers in the Japan Innovation Party (Ishin) are set to meet this afternoon to decide whether to form an alliance with the ruling Liberal Democratic Party that would likely lead to Sanae Takaichi becoming the country’s first female prime minister.

Sanae Takaichi, leader of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party, might become the country's first female prime minister. With backing from the Ishin party, her path seemed secure but required negotiations after Komeito left its coalition with the LDP.