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 world's third largest economy.
The 71-year-old head of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party replaces outgoing leader Shinzo Abe, Japan's longest-serving Prime Minister, who announced his intention to resign in August due to health problems related to colitis -- a non-curable inflammatory bowel disease that he was able to manage for most of his tenure.
In fact, Suga is so closely tied to the former Prime Minister that Kazuto Suzuki, a vice dean and professor of international politics at Hokkaido University, described him as an"Abe substitute."Yoshihide Suga is applauded after he was elected as Japan's Prime Minister by the lower house of the Diet in Tokyo on September 16.Troubles aheadFreshly installed in Japan's top job, Suga is already facing several significant challenges.
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