Yoshihide Suga - Japan's new Prime Minister. - Bloomberg
TOKYO (AP): Japan's Parliament elected Yoshihide Suga as prime minister Wednesday (Sept 16), replacing long-serving leader Shinzo Abe with his right-hand man.
Suga had been chosen as leader of the ruling party on Monday, virtually assuring he would succeed Abe, who resigned earlier in the day because of ill health. Suga, who was chief Cabinet secretary in Abe’s government, is to launch his own Cabinet later Wednesday.
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