Tokyo — Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s choice of a popular minister to handle the rollout of the coronavirus vaccine is largely a move to boost rapidly-sinking support rates, but may also aim to neutralise a strong rival for his job.
Suga’s appointment of Taro Kono, Japan’s administrative reform minister, to co-ordinate preparations for delivering the vaccine comes as his four-month-old government is hit by widespread criticism and plunging support rates over its handling of the virus as a vital election looms later this year...
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