Overview
- Sanae Takaichi begins her premiership with unusually strong approval and a near 10% equity rise since her Liberal Democratic Party leadership win.
- Her program pledges a responsible proactive fiscal policy with guidelines to contain the debt‑to‑GDP ratio while supporting investment‑led growth.
- She has stopped pressuring the Bank of Japan to slow normalization and emphasizes policy alignment, with the 2013 government–BoJ accord serving as a coordination anchor.
- Takaichi instructed ministers to launch a Japan Growth Strategy Council to shape long‑term policy and crisis‑management investment in areas such as climate, energy and demographics.
- Coverage underscores a defense‑focused agenda and closer U.S. ties, while critics caution that more stimulus would not resolve deep structural strains including heavy debt, high taxes and a weak yen.