ANALYSIS: Yoshihide Suga to become next Japanese leader after Shinzo Abe resigns
It couldn't be a worse time to usher in a new leader.
He and his wife waited in line to enter Australia's Bills restaurant in Tokyo just to eat ricotta hotcakes, according to a 2019 profile in the Nikkei newspaper. Suga, on the other hand, is far less abstract, always keeping things in concrete terms about the issues affecting everyday Japanese people.He's a self-made man from a humble background with a particular strength in politics, and he's worked his way to the top.While living in the port city of Yokohama, he sharpened his political skills while working for local politicians and eventually became a local council member in the late 1980s.
"They don't care about the constitution, they're not that focused on foreign policy or these big affairs of state," he said. Suga's vowed to continue with Abe's long-held ambition to make progress on the issues of Japanese abductees in North Korea. Japan's major trading partner, China, will be a fundamental part of any economic recovery — but this in itself poses another foreign policy headache.
China is "continuing to attempt to alter the status quo in the East China Sea and the South China Sea", Japan said in the defence white paper released in July.Amid the uncertainty over China, Japan will likely seek closer ties with Australia and other middle powers such as India. It means Japan will continue to hedge its bets in case one or both of the two relationships hit turbulence.
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