By HIDEKI KITAMI/ Staff Writer
September 4, 2021 at 19:00 JST
Yukio Edano, head of the opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, meets with reporters on Sept. 3 after Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced he was not running in the Liberal Democratic Party presidential race. (Hideki Kitami)
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga threw a spanner in the works as far as the opposition camp was concerned with his Sept. 3 announcement he would step aside and not seek re-election as head of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. [Read More]
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