Japan may soon have its first woman Prime Minister or its youngest leader in the modern era after the voting for the head of nation’s ruling party on Saturday.

According to a report by Reuters, the front-runners in the potentially historic Liberal Democratic Party election are conservative nationalist Sanae Takaichi, 64, and her more moderate rival Shinjiro Koizumi, 44.

They are among the five candidates aiming to replace Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba.

The woman candidate, Sanae Takaichi, has vowed to bring in aggressive government spending and raised the possibility of redoing an investment deal with US President Donald Trump that lowered his punishing tariffs.

“Koizumi and Takaichi offer two quite different approaches to that renewal," said Tina Burrett, a political science professor

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