LDP leadership race

LDP leadership race

Japan's Defense Minister Taro Kono speaks to reporters after a meeting of a Liberal Democratic Party faction led by Finance Minister Taro Aso in Tokyo on Sept. 1, 2020. Kono said the same day he will not run in the party's election for effectively picking the successor to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as the Aso faction has decided to back Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga in the election.

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