FILE PHOTO: Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi plays “Imagine” on a replica of John Lennon’s piano as G7 foreign Ministers look on during a visit to The Beatles Story Museum at the end of the first day of the G7 foreign ministers summit in Liverpool in 2021. - The Japan News/ANN
TOKYO: The photogenic son of a former premier, a hardline nationalist hoping to become Japan's first woman prime minister and an experienced, Beatles-loving moderate are leading the race to take the country's highest political post.
AFP gives a rundown of the three Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lawmakers, among a field of five, with the best shot at claiming the ruling party's leadership crown on Saturday (Oct 4) and likely becoming prime minister.
