Japan's next PM ready to start job

By Agence France-Presse

Oct 05, 2021 12:07 am

YOKOHAMA: Japan's parliament voted on Monday to approve Fumio Kishida as the country's next prime minister with the new leader expected to announce a Cabinet including both holdovers and fresh faces.

The soft-spoken scion of a Hiroshima political family, Kishida, beat popular vaccine chief Taro Kono to win leadership of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party last week.

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