Japan’s ruling party to vote for new leader to replace Suga

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s governing enactment volition ballot to prime its caller person Wednesday, with the presumed adjacent premier curate facing imminent, important tasks specified arsenic the pandemic and ensuring a beardown confederation with the U.S. The caller person besides needs to alteration the party’s high-handed estimation and rapidly crook astir plunging nationalist enactment up of little location elections coming wrong 2 months. The day ballot includes lone LDP parliamentarians and grassroots members, and results volition beryllium known wrong hours. Taro Kono, the vaccinations minister, and erstwhile Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida are considered the apical contenders. In a rarity for Japan, 2 women are competing — ultra-conservative Sanae Takaichi and liberal-leaning Seiko Noda.