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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 due by Nov. 28. The LDP leadership election is over. Let us all face the lower house and the upper house elections as one, Kishida said. Our national crisis continues. We need to keeping working hard on the coronavirus response with strong determination, and we need to compile tens of trillions of yen of stimulus package by the end of the year, he said. Kishida defeated former defence and foreign