THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
August 26, 2021 at 17:00 JST
Fumio Kishida, who at the time served as policy chief of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, speaks during a debate held in the runup to the September 2020 LDP presidential election. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Fumio Kishida, a former foreign minister and policy chief of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, is preparing a second run against Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga in the LDP presidential election slated to be held in late September. [Read More]
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