Japan's longest-serving chief cabinet secretary, Yoshihide Suga, was elected in parliament Wednesday as the 99th prime minister. It is the country's first leadership change since December 2012, or in about seven years and eight months.
This came after Suga won Monday's intraparty vote by a landslide to become the 26th leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. He amassed 377 votes, or around 70% of the total, easily besting former Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and ex-Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who received 89 and 68 votes, respectively.
