Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga To Succeed Shinzo Abe

Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, who is a close confidante of outgoing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, has been elected new president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. He will succeed Abe on Wednesday. In a parliamentary party vote on Monday, Suga was elected the new LDP chief winning a significant majority of 377 votes from lawmakers and regional representatives. Two other cand