Japan’s new prime minister Yoshihide Suga is a farmer’s son with a reputation for inscrutability who has been a key government adviser and policy enforcer. The 71-year-old easily won election to ...

Outgoing Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet resigned en masse on Wednesday in preparation for a transition of power ...

Japan Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, who succeeded the country’s longest-serving leader in history, is stepping down after just one year at the helm of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. The wildly ...

Japan’s ruling party on Monday elected chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga as its new leader, making him all but certain to replace Shinzo Abe as the country’s next prime minister. Suga easily won ...

The sudden decision by Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga to step aside as leader of Japan’s ruling conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has dramatically shaken up this month’s leadership race — and ...

(CNN) — Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Friday said he will not run in his party’s forthcoming leadership election, effectively ceding the premiership and opening the race to other ...

TOKYO (AP) Â Japan's Parliament elected Yoshihide Suga as prime minister Wednesday, replacing long-serving leader Shinzo Abe with his right-hand man. Suga bowed deeply several times when the results ...

Japanese prime minister Yoshihide Suga has announced he will not seek re-election as leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) next month, which will effectively end his tenure in the top ...

TOKYO (AP)  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 Shinzo Abe ...