Japan’s New PM Shigeru Ishiba Faces Major Test With An Election Just Weeks After Taking Office |N18G

Japan’s New PM Shigeru Ishiba Faces Major Test With An Election Just Weeks After Taking Office |N18G Polls opened Sunday in Japan’s general election, in a test for new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba as he seeks voter support for his scandal-hit party just weeks after taking the role. Ishiba, the former defense minister, called a snap election immediately after winning the leadership contest of his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), a conservative political machine that has ruled Japan almost continuously since the party’s founding in 1955. #japan #japanleader #japanpolls #shigeruishiba #news18 News18 Mobile App -