MPs approve Suga as PM, as outgoing leader promises support for successor who vowed to continue his policies
Yoshihide Suga has been installed as Japan’s prime minister and promised a “reform-minded, hard-working” cabinet as the outgoing leader, Shinzo Abe, defended his record.
The 71-year-old Suga, who served as Abe’s right-hand man for almost eight years, has promised to leave economic policy largely unchanged as he attempts to steer Japan out of a deep recession and bring the coronavirus pandemic under control less than a year before Tokyo is hoping to host a postponed summer Olympics.
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