TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's longest-serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe, visited a Tokyo hospital on Monday, as concerns grew over his ability to continue in his post, because of health issues and fatigue from handling the coronavirus crisis.
If Abe is incapacitated, Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso, who doubles as finance minister, would take over temporarily. If Abe resigned, he would stay on until formally replaced, which would require the ruling Liberal Democratic Party to elect a new leader, who would then be formally elected in parliament.TARO ASO
The grandson of a former premier, Aso mixes policy experience with a fondness for manga comics and a tendency towards gaffes.A hawkish former defence minister and rare LDP critic of Abe, Ishiba, 63, regularly tops surveys of lawmakers whom voters want to see as the next premier, but is less popular with the party's lawmakers.
He has criticised the Bank of Japan's ultra-low interest rates for hurting regional banks and called for higher public works spending to remedy growing inequality.Kishida, 63, served as foreign minister under Abe from 2012 to 2017, but diplomacy remained mainly in the prime minister's grip. Educated at Georgetown University and a fluent English speaker, he previously served as foreign minister and minister for administrative reform.
Talk of Suga as a contender bubbled up in April 2019 after he unveiled the new imperial era name,"Reiwa", for use on Japanese calendars after the enthronement of the new emperor.
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