LDP News
A former banker from Hiroshima, Kishida spearheaded Japan`s effort to realise US President Barack Obama`s historic 2016 visit to the city devastated by US bombing seven decades earlier. Asked about his leadership style, Kishida, 64, said last month that bottom-up consensus building is just as important in politics as a top-down approach.
PM Suga’s support ratings sink to below 30 percent as the nation struggles with its worst wave of COVID-19 infections.
Suga announced on Friday that he would not run in a party leadership contest slated for Sept 29.
Suga took over after Shinzo Abe resigned last September citing ill health, has seen his support ratings sink to below 30% as the nation struggles with its worst wave of COVID-19 infections ahead of a general election this year.
A total of 259 candidates, among them 65 women, are contesting the 127 seats in the assembly.
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