Japan’s vaccine czar favoured to become next party leader

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TOKYO (Bloomberg): Japan’s vaccine czar, Taro Kono (pic), is by far the most popular of four candidates set to run in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s leadership election this month, a survey of party members and supporters found.

Kono was favoUred among 49% of respondents in a Kyodo News poll taken Sept. 17-18. In second place was former foreign minister Fumio Kishida with 19%, followed by Sanae Takaichi with16% and Seiko Noda with 3%.