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By Antoni Slodkowski, Ju-min Park and Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO (Reuters) - Former foreign minister Fumio Kishida won a ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leadership race on Wednesday, a victory that virtually ensures he will become Japan's next prime minister within days. In an acceptance speech, Kishida vowed to lead a transformed party in a general election due within weeks and continue to fight the COVID-19 pandemic which has battered Japan's economy. However, Kishida enjoys only moderate public support and has a bland image and his victory could spell problems for the LDP in the election ...

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By Daniel Leussink and Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese former foreign minister Fumio Kishida challenged Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Thursday for the leadership of the ruling party, as the premier struggles with crumbling approval rates ahead of a general election. Suga repeated he would seek re-election in the Sept. 29 race for Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) president, while ex-internal affairs minister Sanae Takaichi also threw her hat in the ring. The winner https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/potential-candidates-japans-ruling-party-leadership-race-2021-08-26 is virtu...

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga held talks on Wednesday with a powerful ruling party executive on a party leadership vote that will decide who leads the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) into the next election due by November.