ishiba resigns as japan's pm after bruising election loss
Tokyo, Sept. 8 -- Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba announced Sunday that he will resign following growing calls from within his party to take responsibility for a historic defeat in July's parliamentary election.
Ishiba, who took office in October, said he was also stepping down as the head of the Liberal Democratic Party. "Having reached a milestone in the US tariff negotiations, I decided now is the time to make way for a successor," he said, a day before his party was to decide whether to hold an early leadership election.P9...
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