Japan’s new prime minister will be formally elected by parliament on October 1 following next week’s leadership contest, a ruling party official said September 18. Polls indicate that three frontrunners are emerging among the nine candidates to succeed Fumio Kishida as head of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in the September 27 internal vote. They...

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