Japan PM candidate Suga is self-made, powerful adviser

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Japan PM candidate Suga is self-made, powerful adviser
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TOKYO (AFP) - Yoshihide Suga, the man expected to become Japan's next prime minister, is a farmer's son with a reputation for inscrutability, who has become a key government adviser, spokesman and policy enforcer.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

TOKYO - Yoshihide Suga, the man expected to become Japan's next prime minister, is a farmer's son with a reputation for inscrutability, who has become a key government adviser, spokesman and policy enforcer.

He has also effectively been the face of Abe's government, serving as its top spokesman and defending decisions in daily press conferences, including in sometimes testy exchanges with reporters. Suga has earned a reputation for wielding his power to control Japan's sprawling and powerful bureaucracy and help push through government policies.

He moved to Tokyo after high school and worked odd jobs to put himself through night college, before being elected to his first office in 1987, as a municipal assembly member in Yokohama outside Tokyo. Suga's closeness to Abe has meant he is seen as someone who can speak frankly to the prime minister, and he notably advised him against his controversial 2013 visit to Tokyo's Yasukuni shrine, which is viewed by neighbouring countries as a symbol of Japan's past militarism.

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