By NATSUKI OKAMURA/ Staff Writer
September 30, 2020 at 18:26 JST
Yoshihide Suga, center, the newly elected president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, meets on Sept. 15 with the new party executive lineup. From left, Taimei Yamaguchi, Election Strategy Committee chairman, Tsutomu Sato, General Council chairman, Suga, Secretary-General Toshihiro Nikai and Hakubun Shimomura, chairman of the Policy Research Council. (Kotaro Ebara)
Toshihiro Nikai, the powerful secretary-general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, is being rewarded with influential political posts for his faction members after throwing early support behind Yoshihide Suga’s leadership bid. [Read More]
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