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Parliamentary election to choose Japan's next PM

Former Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga casts a vote in an election to choose Japan's next prime minister during a House of Representatives plenary session in Tokyo on Oct. 1, 2024, after the Cabinet of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida resigned en masse earlier in the day.

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Japan's ruling LDP's new vice president Suga

Yoshihide Suga, new vice president of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, speaks at a press conference at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Sept. 30, 2024.

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Ex-Japan PM Suga in Hanoi

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (L) holds talks with Vietnamese President To Lam in Hanoi on July 25, 2024.

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Ex-Japan PM Suga in Hanoi

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (L) shakes hands with Vietnamese President To Lam in Hanoi on July 25, 2024.

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Former Japan PM at Vietnam Communist Party chief's funeral

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (front, L) attends the state funeral of Nguyen Phu Trong, general secretary of Vietnam's Communist Party, in Hanoi on July 25, 2024. Trong, who had served in the country's highest position since 2011, died on July 19 aged 80.

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Former Japan PM Suga

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (C) arrives at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on July 23, 2024.

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Former Japan PM Suga

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (C) arrives at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on July 23, 2024.

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Ruling party slush fund scandal

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (R) attends the first meeting of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's "political reform" panel in Tokyo on Jan. 11, 2024, with former Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. The panel will discuss reviewing rules for making the handling of political funds by its factions more transparent amid a secret slush money scandal shaking the LDP.

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Ex-Japan PM Suga

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks to reporters in the central Japan city of Fukui on Sept. 19, 2023.

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Japanese Wolf Prize winner Suga

Professor Hiroaki Suga (L) of the University of Tokyo receives a medal from Israeli President Isaac Herzog in Jerusalem on June 15, 2023, after being awarded the prestigious Wolf Prize in Chemistry.

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Japanese Wolf Prize winner Suga

Professor Hiroaki Suga (far L) of the University of Tokyo, a winner of the Wolf Prize in Chemistry, poses with the other recipients of the prestigious awards given to outstanding scientists and artists, in Jerusalem on June 15, 2023.

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Japanese Wolf Prize winner Suga

Professor Hiroaki Suga (C) of the University of Tokyo, a winner of the prestigious Wolf Prize in Chemistry, poses with his certificate in Jerusalem on June 15, 2023.

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Ex-Japan PM Suga in Vietnam

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga holds talks with Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh in Hanoi on Jan. 9, 2023.

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Sumo legend Taiho to receive national award

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows the former yokozuna Taiho, who died of heart disease in January 2013 at the age of 72. The government will award a posthumous national honor to the late yokozuna in recognition of his historic sumo victory record, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Feb. 15, 2013.

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Tsurumaki dominates to win 74-kg nat'l title

TOKYO, Japan - Tsukasa Tsurumaki (back) attempts to throw his opponent Katsuhiko Nagata in a Greco-Roman 74-kilogram class match at the national championships at Yoyogi gymnasium annex in Tokyo on Dec. 22. Tsurumaki won the 74-kilogram class with a victory over defending champion Taichi Suga in the final to claim his first title.

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Actor Sugi

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows actor Ryotaro Sugi. The Japanese government has praised Sugi, also a singer, for his efforts to establish friendship between Japan and Vietnam, as well as with other Southeast Asian countries, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Feb. 4, 2014.

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Japan PM Suga at parliament

TOKYO, Japan, March 4 Kyodo - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks at a House of Councillors Budget Committee session in Tokyo on March 4, 2021, wearing a mask amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.

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Japan PM Suga at parliament

TOKYO, Japan, Nov. 25 Kyodo - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks during a House of Representatives Budget Committee session in Tokyo on Nov. 25, 2020.

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Japan's Cabinet meeting

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 18 Kyodo - (From L) Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and Finance Minister Taro Aso attend a Cabinet meeting at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Dec. 18, 2020, wearing masks amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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Japan PM Suga at parliament

TOKYO, Japan, Nov. 25 Kyodo - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks during a House of Representatives Budget Committee session in Tokyo on Nov. 25, 2020.

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Japan PM Suga in Vietnam

HANOI, Vietnam, Oct. 19 Kyodo - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (L) shakes hands with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc in Hanoi on Oct. 19, 2020, during a four-day trip to Vietnam and Indonesia on his first foreign trip since taking office. (Pool photo)

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LDP leadership race

TOKYO, Japan, Sept. 12 Kyodo - Liberal Democratic Party presidential candidates (from L) Shigeru Ishiba, Yoshihide Suga and Fumio Kishida pose before a debate hosted by the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Sept. 12, 2020, two days before the LDP leadership election to choose Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's successor.

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Japan's top government spokesman

TOKYO, Japan, April 27 Kyodo - Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on April 27, 2020, wearing a face mask amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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Japan's top government spokesman

TOKYO, Japan, April 27 Kyodo - Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on April 27, 2020, wearing a face mask amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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Japan's top gov't spokesman Suga

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 23 Kyodo - Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga holds an urgent press conference late on Oct. 23, 2018, to announce that Jumpei Yasuda, a 44-year-old Japanese freelance journalist who went missing in Syria in 2015 and was feared held captive by a militant group, has most likely been released.

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Wife of journalist Jumpei Yasuda

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 23 Kyodo - Japanese singer Myu attends a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 7, 2018, calling for the release of her husband Jumpei Yasuda, a freelance journalist who went missing in Syria in 2015 and was feared held captive by a militant group. Japan's top government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said Oct. 23, 2018 that Yasuda has most likely been released.

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N. Korea fires 3 short-range ballistic missiles

TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 26 Kyodo - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga (C) arrives at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Aug. 26, 2017, after North Korea fired three short-range ballistic missiles. Suga said the missiles did not fall within Japan's territory or exclusive economic zone and would not have a direct impact on Japan's security.

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No immediate impact on Japan security from N. Korea missiles: gov't

TOKYO, Japan, June 8 Kyodo - Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga (C) arrives at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 8, 2017, after North Korea test-fired what appeared to be surface-to-ship cruise missiles into the Sea of Japan. Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida told reporters there is nothing to suggest that the missiles reached Japan's exclusive economic zone.

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Top government spokesman announces Japan's new Cabinet lineup

TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 3 Kyodo - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga announces Japan's new Cabinet lineup in Tokyo on Aug. 3, 2016. In his third reshuffle since returning as prime minister in December 2012, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appointed a new defense minister with a history of hawkish views, while retaining eight of the previous Cabinet's 19 members in their posts.

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Top government spokesman announces Japan's new Cabinet lineup

TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 3 Kyodo - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga announces Japan's new Cabinet lineup in Tokyo on Aug. 3, 2016. In his third reshuffle since returning as prime minister in December 2012, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appointed a new defense minister with a history of hawkish views, while retaining eight of the previous Cabinet's 19 members in their posts.

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Abe asks Obama to investigate alleged U.S. spying

TOKYO, Aug. 26 Kyodo - Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga speaks at a daily press briefing in Tokyo on Aug. 26, 2015. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe asked U.S. President Barack Obama in their phone talks to investigate alleged spying on high-level Japanese government and corporate officials, after anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks released a list of spying targets in July, Suga said.

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Japan demands U.S. explanation over alleged spying

TOKYO, Aug. 3 Kyodo - Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga speaks during a daily press briefing in Tokyo on Aug. 3, 2015. Suga said Tokyo is seeking an explanation from Washington over alleged U.S. spying on the Japanese government and Japanese companies.

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Japanese astronaut Yui meets top gov't spokesman

TOKYO, Japan - Astronaut Kimiya Yui holds a model of the Japanese experiment module Kibo in the International Space Station with Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga at the Prime Minister's office in Tokyo on Jan. 13, 2015. Yui is scheduled to stay there for half a year from May.

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Trap-net fish firm in Ishikawa Pref. gets PM award

TOKYO, Japan - Hidenobu Sakai (L), head of the Kadoshima trap-net fishery in Nanao, a seaport on the Sea of Japan in Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga (C) pose for a photograph at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Nov. 26, 2014, after the firm was awarded the Prime Minister's prize for revitalizing the local community.

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Shiogama Port Festival in Miyagi Pref. gets PM award

TOKYO, Japan - Kankuro Abe (L), head of the executive committee of Shiogama Port Festival in Miyagi Prefecture, and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga (C) pose for a photograph at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Nov. 26, 2014, after the festival was awarded the Prime Minister's prize for an event contributing to regional development.

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Japanese, U.S. business leaders begin annual meeting

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga delivers a speech at a joint general meeting of the Japan-U.S. Business Council and U.S.-Japan Business Council, bilateral business councils based in each country, at a Tokyo hotel on Nov. 13, 2014. Japanese and U.S. business leaders kicked off their 51st annual meeting and will release a statement the following day after discussing political and economic issues.

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Japan wants N. Korea to present 1st report on abductees by year-end

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga attends a press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 2014, saying that Japan hopes North Korea will present by year-end its report on a new round of investigations into Japanese nationals it abducted decades ago, following Pyongyang's failure to meet an earlier expected timeframe.

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Japan to send mission to N. Korea over abduction probe

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga attends a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 22, 2014. He said Tokyo will send a delegation to Pyongyang on Oct. 27 to check on North Korea's reinvestigation into the fates of Japanese nationals abducted decades ago

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Japan to send officials to N. Korea to check abduction probe

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga tells a press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 20, 2014, that the government will send officials soon to North Korea to check its investigation into the fates of Japanese nationals abducted by Pyongyang decades ago.

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Japan to send officials to N. Korea to check abduction probe

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga tells a press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 20, 2014, that the government will send officials soon to North Korea to check its investigation into the fates of Japanese nationals abducted by Pyongyang decades ago.

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Cabinet spokesman talks on state secrecy protection law

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga says at a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Oct. 14, 2104, that he is open to more questions about a controversial state secrecy protection law to help allay any concerns Japanese citizens may have. The act is set to come into effect on Dec. 10.

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Russian senior official visits Etorofu

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Sergei Ivanov (front), chief of staff of Russia's Presidential Executive Office, inspects a newly constructed dock on Sept. 24, 2014, on Etorofu Island -- one of the four islets off Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido, claimed by Tokyo but controlled by Moscow. In Tokyo, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said the development is "extremely regrettable."

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Russian senior official visits Etorofu

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Sergei Ivanov (C), chief of staff of Russia's Presidential Executive Office, inspects a newly constructed airport on Sept. 24, 2014, on Etorofu Island -- one of the four islets off Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido, claimed by Tokyo but controlled by Moscow. In Tokyo, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said the development is "extremely regrettable."

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Russian senior official visits Etorofu

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Sergei Ivanov (C), chief of staff of Russia's Presidential Executive Office, inspects a newly constructed airport on Sept. 24, 2014, on Etorofu Island -- one of the four islets off Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido, claimed by Tokyo but controlled by Moscow. In Tokyo, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said the development is "extremely regrettable."

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Suga meets with Okinawa Gov. Nakaima

NAHA, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga gets on a helicopter at the Air Self-Defense Force base in Japan's southwestern city of Naha, Okinawa, on Sept. 17, 2014. Suga saw the relocation site for the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station off Nago by the helicopter before meeting with Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima.

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Suga meets with Okinawa Gov. Nakaima

NAHA, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga (L) shakes hands with Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima on Sept. 17, 2014, in Japan's southwestern city of Naha, Okinawa. During their meeting, Suga told Nakaima that they are "on the same page" about the planned transfer of a key U.S. military base in the southern island prefecture, saying dangers posed by the facility to local people should be removed.

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Abe reshuffles Cabinet

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshihide Suga, retained as chief Cabinet secretary, announces the members of the reshuffled Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 3, 2014.

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Japan to disclose Fukushima nuclear plant chief's testimony

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga announces on Aug. 25, 2014, in Tokyo that the government will release transcripts of interviews with those who had key roles in handling the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi complex next month. The interviewees include the late Masao Yoshida, who headed the plant when the crisis broke out in March 2011.

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Abe to retain Suga in Cabinet reshuffle

NAGASAKI, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe gestures during a press conference at a hotel in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 9, 2014. Abe said he plans to retain Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga in a reshuffle of his Cabinet that will likely take place on Sept. 4. Earlier, Abe attended a ceremony marking the 69th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city.

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Abe to retain Suga in Cabinet reshuffle

NAGASAKI, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at a press conference at a hotel in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 9, 2014, after attending a ceremony marking the 69th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city. Abe said he plans to retain Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga in a reshuffle of his Cabinet that will likely take place on Sept. 4.