Japan’s economic security minister runs for ruling party leadership

Japan’s economic security minister runs for ruling party leadership

(9 Sep 2024)
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Tokyo, Japan – 9 September 2024
1. Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi posing for photos ahead of news conference, walking towards podium
2. Zoom out from reporters to Takaichi at podium
3. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Sanae Takaichi, Economic Security Minister:
“I, Sanae Takaichi, have decided to run in the Liberal Democratic Party’s presidential election. I consider the nation’s ultimate mission to be that to protect the people’s assets, protect the country’s territory, territorial waters, airspace and resources, and maintain its sovereignty and pride.”
4. Wide of news conference
5. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Sanae Takaichi, Economic Security Minister:
“In order to achieve this mission, it is necessary to strengthen the national power. That is, diplomacy, defence power, economic power, information power and what they all have in common: human resources. I aim to see growth in all six of these as well as a synergistic effect.”
6. Cutaway of reporters
7. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Sanae Takaichi, Economic Security Minister:
“There is a condition, however, for all these six fields to grow and to give opportunities to the young generation. More than anything, we need economic growth. I will pursue economic growth, all the way.”
8. Takaichi leaving
STORYLINE:
Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi announced Monday her bid to run in the party’s leadership race.

Takaichi is the first woman candidate who declared that she will run for party leader in the election on 27 September to succeed Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.

During the news conference she claimed she will seek Japan’s economic growth all the way in order to strengthen its national power.

The internal election must be held by the end of September, which marks the end of Kishida’s three-year term and will only include the party’s parliamentarians and its 1.1 million dues-paying members.

The winner will be the head of the Liberal Democratic Party and the country’s prime minister as the party and its smaller coalition partner control Japan’s two-chamber parliament.

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