Japan's Takaichi faces early test of defence ambitions with Trump visit


TOKYO: Japanese leader Sanae Takaichi's (pic) new hardline coalition partner unshackles her security ambitions and gives US President Donald Trump room to press for military spending, but her fragile government may put a brake on what she can do.

Takaichi, an admirer of conservative British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, was sworn in on Tuesday (Oct 21) 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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