TOKYO (Reuters) -In her campaign to become Japan's first female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi made a bold promise to narrow the country's wide gender gap in politics and lift the number of women in cabinet to a par with socially progressive Nordic countries.
Now that she has shattered the glass ceiling to be chosen leader of the ruling party on Saturday - setting her on course to emulate her hero Margaret Thatcher, Britain's first female premier - Takaichi must try to deliver on promises her party has struggled to keep.
