Sanae Takaichi

Sanae Takaichi appears in roughly 12 monitored articles per day as of August 20, 2026. Mentions are up 17.2% week-over-week. The tone of that coverage averages -3.28 — 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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Also covered as: Takaichi · Wikidata

Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Articles / day
12
mentioning this entity
Week over week
+17.2%
7-day mean vs prior
Tone
-3.28
negative

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Sanae Takaichi mentions per day: 91 days, latest 12.00 on 2026-08-200.005001000May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Sanae Takaichi coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -3.28 on 2026-08-20+100-10May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Reader interest (Wikipedia)

Daily Wikipedia pageviews for Sanae Takaichi: 89 days, latest 2468.00 on 2026-08-180.00500010000May 22Jun 6Jun 21Jul 6Jul 21Aug 5Aug 18

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”).