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Japan's ruling LDP preparing for leadership vote to replace Shigeru Ishiba

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There is now a leadership scramble in Japan, with the ruling party determined to hold onto power. The incumbent prime minister has called time on his tenure. Shigeru Ishiba resigned on the weekend in a bid, he says, to take responsibility for a hammering at the ballot box for the Liberal Democratic Party. CNA speaks to Tamura Kotaro, Adjunct Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at NUS. 

There is now a leadership scramble in Japan, with the ruling party determined to hold onto power. The incumbent prime minister has called time on his tenure. Shigeru Ishiba resigned on the weekend in a bid, he says, to take responsibility for a hammering at the ballot box for the Liberal Democratic Party. CNA speaks to Tamura Kotaro, Adjunct Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at NUS. 

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