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That poll, which will decide which party controls parliament's powerful lower house, will come on Oct 27, Kyodo reported.

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida aims to win a clear voter mandate to press ahead with his coronavirus response.

The new cabinet members under Kishida, who succeeds Yoshihide Suga, are due to be announced later in the day.

There are three women in the line-up, one more than Suga had, but none holds a heavyweight portfolio.

Japan's incoming prime minister Fumio Kishida will formally take office on Monday.

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Running for the top post are popular vaccine minister Taro Kono, 58, a U.S.-educated former defence and foreign minister seen as a maverick.

The winner of the LDP leadership election set for Sept. 29 is all but assured to be prime minister.

Kishida repeated a call for an economic stimulus package worth "tens of trillions of yen" to combat the coronavirus pandemic.

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Suga's announcement on not continuing a second term as leader of LDP, sets the stage for a new PM following a party leadership vote.

23 pct of respondents said Kono, the minister in charge of vaccines, was the most suitable person to take over.

Takaichi received a boost by winning the support of Suga's long-serving predecessor Shinzo Abe.

Suga will back the popular minister in charge of the nation's vaccination rollout, Taro Kono, to succeed him.

Beijing looks to improve its foothold in a region historically under the US sphere of influence.

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Liew Chin Tong says the restrictions would not affect the development of the domestic data centre ecosystem as a whole.

A court cannot decide that the parliament or the government must take any specific action, the Supreme Court says.