Japan’s likely next prime minister , Sanae Takaichi, is expected to name former minister Satsuki Katayama as the country’s first woman to head the finance ministry, broadcaster FNN reported, marking a powerful symbol of breaking the glass ceiling as Takaichi herself is poised to become Japan’s first-ever female prime minister later on Tuesday.

Takaichi, a hardline conservative and an acolyte of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe , is now almost certain to become prime minister at a parliamentary vote on Tuesday after her Liberal Democratic Party on Monday agreed to a coalition deal with the right-wing Japan Innovation Party, known as Ishin.

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Takaichi’s victory will make her the first female prime minister in a country where the top echelons of politics and busines

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