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The leader of the Japanese ruling party, Yoshihide Suga, was elected prime minister in a parliamentary vote on Wednesday, becoming the country’s first new prime minister in nearly eight years. Suga’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party used its majority in the powerful lower house of parliament, which is empowered to elect …

Yoshihide Suga won the leadership race of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on Monday and will in all likelihood win a parliamentary vote later this week and replace outgoing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, said last month that he would resign due to health problems, …