Yoshihide Suga Elected as Japan’s New PM

Yoshihide Suga has been elected as Japan’s next prime minister by the country’s lower house of parliament on Wednesday.

Suga is replacing Shinzo Abe who resigned because of poor health and promising to continue his signature economic policies.

The 71-year-old Suga the son of a strawberry farmer won the leadership contest of the governing Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on Monday and was all but assured the top job when his appointment went to a vote in parliament given the party’s two-thirds majority.

After years of economic stagnation and already struggling with the long-term effects of the world’s most elderly population.