Shigeru Ishiba: political troublemaker set to take charge in Japan
Japan's next prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba, says he reads three books a day and would rather do that than mingle with the ruling party colleagues who picked him as their new leader on Friday. The 67-year-old's successful leadership bid after four failed attempts puts the self-professed lone wolf at the helm of a Liberal Democratic Party that has ruled Japan for most of the past seven decades.
Japan's ruling party on Friday picked former defense minister Shigeru Ishiba as leader, setting him up to become prime ...
Japan's soon-to-be prime minister faces big challenge as he tries to move past ruling party scandals
The person chosen Friday to lead Japan's governing party, and become prime minister next week, is a veteran politician with ...
Shigeru Ishiba, a former defense minister more popular with the rank and file than with his lawmaker colleagues, had sought ...
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Tokyo is urging its citizens to leave Lebanon, Japan's top government spokesman said Friday, with media reporting plans are afoot to dispatch military aircraft to evacuate them.
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Japanese fighter jets fired warnings flares against a Russian military aircraft that Tokyo said repeatedly entered the ...
Japan scrambled fighter jets after a Russian Il-38 plane entered Japanese airspace on Sept. 23. Japan used flares after the ...
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