The offer comes as Yoshihide Suga — only days into his tenure — tries to do what his predecessor and former boss, Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, couldn’t: resolve the ...
Kishida's party has been in almost continuous power in Japan since 1955. He became prime minister in 2021, taking over from his predecessor Yoshihide Suga. Before that, Japan had been led ...
Suga spoke to reporters on Thursday in Washington where he attended the state funeral for former US President Jimmy Carter as a special envoy of the Japanese prime minister.
Trump has already hosted two key allies at the White House, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Japanese PM Shigeru ...
Former Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said Wednesday that his country ... William Hagerty, a Republican who served as U.S. ambassador to Japan during the first Trump administration.
Suga urged Abe to run in the 2012 LDP presidential ... so its next president will also likely be the next prime minister of Japan. The party will elect its new leader on September 14.