TOKYO, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- Sanae Takaichi, president of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, was elected as the country's 105th prime minister on Wednesday by lawmakers in parliament.
At an extraordinary Diet session that convened on the day, Takaichi first secured appointment as prime minister without a runoff vote in the lower house, and then won the most votes in a runoff in the upper house after no candidate secured a majority in the first vote. ■