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Opinion

Japan's new leader goes missing in action

Yoshihide Suga's priorities are as incremental as they are vague

| Japan
Suga must roll up his sleeves and go big.   © AP

William Pesek is an award-winning Tokyo-based journalist and author of "Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades."

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