Yoshihide Suga Steps In As Japan’s 99th Prime Minister
September 16, 2020
7:14 am
Japan’s Yoshihide Suga was voted as the 99th prime minister by parliament on Wednesday to become the country’s first new leader in nearly eight years.
And he straightaway appointed a new cabinet that kept about half of the familiar faces from predecessor Shinzo Abe’s lineup.
Suga, 71, Abe’s longtime right-hand man, has pledged to pursue many of Abe’s programmes, including his “Abenomics” economic strategy, and to forge ahead with structural reforms, including deregulation and shutting down bureaucratic turf battles.
Abe, Japan’s longest-serving premier, resigned because of ill health after nearly eight years in office. Suga served under him in the …
