Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

Japan’s parliament elects ultraconservative Sanae Takaichi as nation’s first female prime minister

Her leadership comes as the Liberal Democratic Party forms a coalition with the right-wing Japan Innovation Party.

Who is Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s first female prime minister?

Sanae Takaichi is officially Japan’s first female prime minister. The leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) was elected to the post on Tuesday after winning four more votes than the ...

Sanae Takaichi education and career path: How a staunch conservative became Japan’s first female prime minister

Sanae Takaichi, inspired by Thatcher, rose from a six-hour daily commute at Kobe University to become Japan’s first female ...

Japan’s first female leader is an ultraconservative star from a male-dominated party

Sanae Takaichi has become Japan's first female prime minister, a significant milestone in the country's male-dominated ...
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

Ultraconservative Sanae Takaichi set to become Japan’s first female prime minister

Sanae Takaichi is on track to become Japan’s first female prime minister, after her governing party secured a crucial ...
IEEE

Feature learning of Japanese pitch accents and applications to Japanese speech education

Abstract: We modeled pitch frequency by a sequential variational autoencoder to obtain the feature representations of the pitch accents of Japanese words for applications to Japanese speech education ...