Sanae Takaichi

Sanae Takaichi appears in roughly 23 monitored articles per day as of October 4, 2026. Mentions are down 62.4% week-over-week. The tone of that coverage averages -1.51 — mildly negative.

Sanae Takaichi is a Japanese politician who has been Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) since October 2025. She is the first woman to hold either of these positions in Japanese history. A member of the House of Representatives from 1993 to 2003 and since 2005, she also held ministerial posts during the premierships of Shinzo Abe and Fumio Kishida.

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Data updated: · refreshed every 3 hours from GDELT

Articles / day
23
mentioning this entity
Week over week
-62.4%
7-day mean vs prior
Tone
-1.51
mildly negative

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Sanae Takaichi mentions per day: 91 days, latest 23.00 on 2026-10-040.005001000Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Sanae Takaichi coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -1.51 on 2026-10-04+100-10Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Reader interest (Wikipedia)

Daily Wikipedia pageviews for Sanae Takaichi: 89 days, latest 2371.00 on 2026-10-020.0025005000Jul 6Jul 21Aug 5Aug 20Sep 4Sep 19Oct 2

Daily human pageviews of the entity's English Wikipedia article (Wikimedia Analytics). Coverage above measures what the press SUPPLIES; this measures what readers DEMAND — divergence between the two is its own signal.

Mentions counted via a quoted-name query against the GDELT DOC API, aggregated to UTC days — see methodology. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).