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RACE IS ON Liberal Democratic Party presidential candidate and Japan’s former internal affairs minister Sanae Takaichi delivers a campaign speech in Tokyo on Sept. 17, 2021 ahead of the ruling party’s September 29 election to choose a successor for outgoing LDP President and Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. AFP PHOTO
RACE IS ON Liberal Democratic Party presidential candidate and Japan’s former internal affairs minister Sanae Takaichi delivers a campaign speech in Tokyo on Sept. 17, 2021 ahead of the ruling party’s September 29 election to choose a successor for outgoing LDP President and Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. AFP PHOTO


TOKYO, JAPAN: The campaign to become Japan's next prime minister kicks off on Friday with four candidates vying for leadership of the ruling party in an unusually close race.

The candidates include two women hoping to lead a country that has never had a female prime minister, though both are considered long shots.

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