Japan votes in a key election
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Shigeru Ishiba likes the nitty gritty of policy and making military models, but his dream job as Japanese prime minister looked at risk of coming unstuck on Sunday.Seen as a safe pair of hands, he won the party leadership in September,
Ishiba, 68, a self-confessed defense “geek,” is the son of a regional governor and is from Japan’s small Christian minority. He won the party leadership in September last year, on his fifth try, to become the LDP’s 10th separate prime minister since 2000, all of them men.
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