<p style="text-align:start;" size="1" _root="[object Object]" __ownerid="undefined" __hash="undefined" __altered="false">Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is the highest-ranked political newcomer to the <em>Forbes</em> list of the World’s Most Powerful Women, one of a few breakthroughs amid a year otherwise marked by sudden ousters, stalled progress toward parity and eroding perceptions among younger generations of women’s ability to lead.</p>
