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Abe's Successor Timed His Entrance Perfectly
Yoshihide Suga is set to become premier just as Japan Inc. is staging a strong recovery.
Promising signs.
Photographer: Eugene Hoshiko/AP
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Japan Inc. should rejoice at the prospect of a new premier: It can only get better from here.
Yoshihide Suga, the top aide to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, has been elected leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party in a landslide, paving his way to the country’s top post. Parliament’s vote Wednesday will make it official.