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Special Desk Japan’s former PM and an internationally known face Shinzo Abe, 67, was shot at on Friday while he was campaigning in Nara city. He has been taken to hospital. It is said he might have been shot from behind by a man with a shotgun. Chief Cabinet Secretary …

Special Desk Fumio Kishida will become Japan’s prime minister as the country’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) anointed former foreign minister Kishida as its new leader, virtually ensuring the soft-spoken consensus-builder will become prime minister soon. Fumio Kishida enjoys only moderate popular support and has a bland image. Kishida but …