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Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga campaigned on a promise of continuity, which apparently extended to the nearly all-male lineup of the cabinet. ( read original story ...)

Naomi Osaka drew the ire of skeptics due to her display of activism while competing in the US Open. The young superstar, however, said the criticism has inspired her more to win her third Grand Slam ... ( read original story ...)

Yoshihide Suga’s status quo cabinet suggested that he was rewarding the factions inside his party that had helped him become prime minister. ( read original story ...)

Japan's new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga pledged on Wednesday that he will do his best to protect employment while also countering the coronavirus. In his first news conference as prime minister, ... ( read original story ...)

Looking for an easy day trip from Tokyo? Try Enoshima, Hakkeijima, Sarushima and Jogashima islands just south of the city ... ( read original story ...)

Analysts say that while Yoshihide Suga may shy away from golf outings with President Trump, he knows what matters, both to his people and his allies. ( read original story ...)

Aichi Prefectural Police are attempting to identify a person who was hit and killed by a train in Nagoya on Monday ... ( read original story ...)

While he can't be sure if the delayed Tokyo Olympics will go ahead in 2021, Australian Boomers veteran Joe Ingles has already had conversations about also playing the 2024 Games in Paris. ( read original story ...)

Among the challenges awaiting newly appointed Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is the urgent challenge of how to keep the world’s third-largest economy growing as ... ( read original story ...)

Before he got Japan's top government job officially, Yoshihide Suga was known as a “shadow" prime minister and the right-hand man for his long-serving predecessor. When ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese stocks ended marginally higher on Wednesday on expectations that the U.S. Federal Reserve would reinforce its commitment to keeping rates low at a meeting later in the day. ( read original story ...)

So how is it that Mr Suga is now suddenly Japan's new prime minister? According to economist and long-time Tokyo resident Jesper Koll, Mr Suga was chosen by (LDP) bosses, the faction leaders who wield ... ( read original story ...)

MPs approve Suga as PM, as outgoing leader promises support for successor who vowed to continue his policies ... ( read original story ...)

Yoshihide Suga has been elected Japan's new Prime Minister following a vote in the country's Parliament on Wednesday, confirming the former cardboard factory worker and farmer's son as leader of the ... ( read original story ...)

The 71-year-old Suga, who previously served as Abe’s right-hand man, has pledged to keep in place his former boss’s flexible fiscal stance and ultra-easy monetary policy known as “Abenomics" ... ( read original story ...)

Mr Suga then easily won the vote for prime minister in the Diet, Japan's lower house, where a coalition headed by his conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) holds a majority. ( read original story ...)