Sanae Takaichi has made history after being appointed as Japan's first-ever female prime minister.
Takaichi is a hard-line conservative, referred to as Japan's Iron Lady, whose Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has formed a coalition with a minor party with similar views.
This was her third attempt at becoming prime minister, and she is the nation's fourth leader in just five years.
Takaichi opposes a revision of a 19th-century law that requires married couples to use the same surname, saying that allowing women to retain their maiden names will deteriorate traditional family values.
She also opposes same-sex marriage and calls for a change to succession laws to allow female members of the imperial household to become reigning empresses.
Previously, Takaichi had promised levels of female representation in her government comparable to those in Iceland, Finland and Norway, but just hours after she was elected, it became clear that would not be the reality, as she appointed only two women to her cabinet.
In Iceland, 6 out of 11 cabinet members are women, including the prime minister, Kristrún Frostadóttir, and Finland's cabinet of 19 has 11 women.
Satsuki Katayama, who became the first woman to hold the post of finance minister, was joined by Kimi Onoda as economic security minister in Takaichi’s 19-member cabinet.
