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Yoshihide Suga was elected Japanese prime minister after Shinzo Abe stepped down, in the nation’s first leadership change since 2012. Here’s a look at the new leader and his challenges.

Before he got Japan’s top government job officially, Yoshihide Suga was known as a “shadow” prime minister and the right-hand man for his long-serving predecessor …

So how is it that Mr Suga is now suddenly Japan’s new prime minister? According to economist and long-time Tokyo resident Jesper Koll, Mr Suga was chosen by (LDP) bosses, the faction leaders who wield …

Yoshihide Suga has been elected Japan’s new Prime Minister following a vote in the country’s Parliament on Wednesday, confirming the former cardboard factory worker and farmer’s son as leader of the …

The 71-year-old Suga, who previously served as Abe’s right-hand man, has pledged to keep in place his former boss’s flexible fiscal stance and ultra-easy monetary policy known as “Abenomics” …

Abe, Japan’s longest-serving premier, resigned because of ill health after nearly eight years in office. Suga served under him in the pivotal post of chief cabinet secretary. Suga won 314 votes out of …

Suga, who served as chief cabinet secretary to outgoing premier Shinzo Abe, was voted in by the lower house of parliament where his ruling Liberal Democratic Party holds a majority.

Mr Suga then easily won the vote for prime minister in the Diet, Japan’s lower house, where a coalition headed by his conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) holds a majority.

The freshly minted head of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and incoming Japanese prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, who has vowed to continue the policies of his predecessor Shinzo Abe, was set to …