Yoshihide Suga elected as Japan’s new prime minister
Finance minister Taro Aso, foreign minister Toshimitsu Motegi and environment minister Shinjiro Koizumi — the 39-year-old son of a former premier — are among those staying on in cabinet
16 September 2020 - 19:45
Tokyo — Japan’s parliament on Wednesday formally elected ruling party stalwart Yoshihide Suga — the 71-year-old son of a strawberry farmer — to be the country’s first new prime minister in almost eight years.
In his inaugural news conference as premier, he pledged to follow the policies of his former boss, Shinzo Abe, and give top priority to controlling the coronavirus, which helped cause the country’s worst contraction on record in the second quarter of this year...
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