Former defence minister, Shigeru Ishiba, will become Japan’s prime minister next week after winning the conservative ruling party’s leadership vote on Friday. The 67-year-old train lover beat arch-nationalist Sanae Takaichi – who would have been the country’s first-ever woman leader – 215 votes to 194 in a run-off. After his victory was announced at the
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