Front-runners: (From left) Hayashi, Takaichi and Koizumi walking on stage at the LDP presidential election candidates joint press conference at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo. — Reuters
THE country stands a good chance of having its first woman prime minister or its youngest leader in the modern era after a vote today to pick the head of the nation’s ruling party.
The front-runners in the potentially historic Liberal Democratic Party election are conservative nationalist Sanae Takaichi, 64, and her more moderate rival Shinjiro Koizumi, 44.
