Since his first day in office, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga had sought to stamp down the coronavirus and revive the nation's battered economy.
But he never came close to achieving either goal.
Ultimately, the public's relentless frustrations over the country’s protracted vaccine rollout and empty promises on containing the pandemic proved to be his undoing, experts say.
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