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Politics
Kishida to step down in September in bid to show ‘LDP has changed’
By
Gabriele Ninivaggi
,
Eric Johnston
and
Kanako Takahara
The surprise move came amid growing criticism from rank-and-file party members and bad poll numbers.
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Kishida's shock announcement shakes already unsettled Japanese markets
OPINION
M. Niaz Asadullah
The fall of Bangladesh’s iron lady
What began as a student protest against the country’s highly politicized system of public-sector job quotas quickly escalated into an anti-government Gen Z revolution.
Marc Champion
Want peace for Ukraine? Let it strike in Russia
The only surprise is that it came so late — 2½ years into President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Howard Chua-Eoan
The U.K. riots and an evil day 500 years ago in London
The enmity focused on the foreign-born may have been sparked by misinformation, but that doesn’t disguise the fact that the tinder was waiting to be lit in Britain.
