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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.

Here are the key economic policy views of candidates to become Japan's next prime minister.

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.

Donald Trump says he would impose the tariffs until China stops the flow of illegal drugs, particularly fentanyl, into the United States.

Topping the demands of Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party is the release of all its leaders, including Khan, who has been jailed on a series of corruption charges since August 2023.

The report highlights that "60 per cent of all female homicides" are committed by "people closely related to them".

Two subsea cables, one linking Finland and Germany and the other connecting Sweden to Lithuania, were damaged in less than 24 hours.

It is clear that adding more lanes and highways doesn't work, because we are still attempting the same approach to solve the issue.

This investment includes efforts to upgrade INOKOM's existing assembly capacity to meet Hyundai's automotive needs.

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The court denied bail and scheduled case mention on Feb 7 for the submission of forensic, autopsy, and chemist reports.

The classroom assessment approach offers a much more interesting learning ecosystem, says Fadhlina Sidek.

Google and Meta says the government should wait for the results of an age-verification trial before going ahead.