The heavy-metal-loving, motorcycle-driving Sanae Takaichi (高市 早苗) was elected the first female prime minister of Japan on Tuesday. Wearing a blue suit jacket to reference U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Takaichi is expected to move the country further to the political right.

Japan's new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi delivered her first policy speech to the parliament Friday, focusing on economic security and defense spending.

Here’s how the LDP leader remade Japan’s ruling coalition to become the country’s first female Prime Minister.

The hardline conservative emulated her hero Margaret Thatcher after a whirlwind few weeks of political wrangling.