Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s 65-year-old prime minister, wrote it as if recounting a victory: she slept five hours straight. Something that had not happened to her in a long time.
Because since taking office, her body has grown accustomed to something else: between zero and three hours of sleep each night. That Monday, taking advantage of the Marine Day holiday, she even had time to iron handkerchiefs and underwear, something that in her normal routine is left for the early hours of the morning, squeezed in between washing dishes, cleaning the bathtub, and doing the laundry.
Then come the official documents, which keep her awake until dawn breaks again. Takaichi had been criticized for asking her team to work without rest. Now you know the schedule by which she leads by example.
