Japan's next prime minister as a boy: good in sports, 'stiff' as actor


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  • Monday, 14 Sep 2020

FILE PHOTO: Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga waves after a debate organized by the Liberal Democratic Party, Youth Bureau and Women's Bureau at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo, Japan September 9, 2020. Philip Fong/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

YUZAWA, Japan (Reuters) - As a boy, friends say, Yoshihide Suga - poised to be Japan's next leader - sledded down mountains in winter, ran track and field and was an avid baseball player. But his skills didn't extend as far as acting.

"He was always kind of stiff," said Masashi Yuri, displaying a photo of their junior high school class play. "So he was only really good to play policemen, things like that."

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