[TOKYO] The abrupt resignation of Japan's longest-serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe, on Friday triggered an election in his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to replace him as its president, followed by a vote in parliament to elect a new prime minister. Read more at The Business Times.
It is considering holding the vote around Sep 15, local media said on Saturday.A hawkish former defence minister and rare LDP critic of Mr Abe, Mr Ishiba, 63, regularly tops surveys of lawmakers whom voters want to see as the next premier, but is less popular with the party's lawmakers.
He has criticised the Bank of Japan's ultra-low interest rates for hurting regional banks and called for higher public works spending to remedy growing inequality.Mr Kishida, 63, served as foreign minister under Mr Abe from 2012 to 2017, but diplomacy remained mainly in the prime minister's grip. Mr Suga, 71, a self-made politician and loyal lieutenant since Mr Abe's troubled term as premier in 2006 and 2007, was among a band of allies who pushed Mr Abe to run again for the top post in 2012.
Although he has so far publicly denied interest in being prime minister, Mr Suga went on a publicity blitz in the week before Mr Abe's resignation, giving interviews to at least four major media organisations.TARO KONO He has differentiated his conservative stances from those of his father, former chief cabinet secretary Yohei Kono, who authored a landmark 1993 apology to"comfort women", a euphemism for women forced to work in Japan's wartime military brothels.The name of Mr Koizumi, 39, now environment minister and the son of charismatic former premier Junichiro Koizumi, is often floated as a future premier, but many consider him too young.
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