Japanese Communist Party taps 1st female leader

The Japanese Communist Party appointed policy chief Tomoko Tamura to be its new chairperson on Thursday, making her the first woman to take the helm of the party.Tamura replaces Kazuo Shii, who had led the party since November 2000. The appointment was endorsed on the final day of the four-day party congress held in Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture in central Japan.Tamura, a 58-year-old House of Councillors lawmaker who was elected to parliament in 2010, became the first female policy chief of the party at the previous congress in 2020.Shii, who will become the JCP Central Committee chairman, was…READ FULL ARTICLE