September 27, 2024 11:09 AM

LDP leadership election candidates: Who’s vying to be Japan’s next PM?

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party votes on Friday in leadership election to replace Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. Here are the leading contenders based on public opinion polls. SHIGERU ISHIBA, 67 The former defence minister is making his fifth and, he says, final bid to lead a party that has governed Japan for most of the past seven decades. He is alone among the candidates in calling for a shift from nuclear power to renewable energy such as geothermal and supports legislation that wo...