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New York Times: Japan’s next prime minister emerges from behind the curtain

Published Sept. 15, 2020. Updated Sept. 15 at 4:04 am

Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga reacts after he was elected as new head of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) at the party's leadership election in Tokyo on September 14, 2020. - Japan's ruling party on September 14 elected chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga as its new leader. He replaced Shinzo Abe as the country's prime minister. on Sept. 16, 2020.

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Yoshihide Suga charted an unlikely course to the cusp of Japan’s premiership. While most leading Japanese lawmakers come from elite political families, Mr. Suga is the son of a strawberry farmer and a schoolteacher from the country’s rural north.