This is great. It turns out that Japan's first ever female Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi, is a hard rock devotee and a super-fan of British band Deep Purple.
Takauchi is herself a keen (and apparently frenetic) rock drummer, and used to play in a Deep Purple tribute band. So, when she met up with DP drummer Ian Paice, over 50 years after DP's seminal 1972 album Made In Japan, Ms. Takaichi's reaction was precious: "You are my god", she gushed, not words you often hear from a Prime Minister. She added, "These days, when I fight with my husband, I drum to Burn and cast a curse on him". Er, OK, perhaps a little too much ioformation.
In the midst of trade wrangling with America, increasing tensions with China, and complaints about inflation and a sluggish economy, thoigh, what a breath of fresh air.
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