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The political space for action exists. What’s missing is leadership willing to act on what courts have already decided.

Japan's parliament has voted in the country's first ever female prime minister. Sanae Takaichi won 237 votes in the 465-seat lower chamber of parliament, and is also set to secure a majority in the ...