Sanae Takaichi, 64. admires former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and is a proponent of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's conservative vision for Japan. Takaichi is the first female president of Japan's predominantly male ruling party that has dominated Japan's postwar politics almost without interruption. But on Saturday, as she called for an all-out effort to rebuild the party and regain public support, she asked all party lawmakers to “work like a horse.” Then she added, “I will abandon the word ‘work-life balance.’ I will work, work, work and work." She regularly visits Yasukuni Shrine, which Japan’s neighbors consider a symbol of militarism, though she has declined to say what she would do as prime minister. Political watchers say her revisionist views of Japan’s wartime history may complicate ties with Beijing and Seoul.