TOKYO -- Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is poised to rejoin the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's largest faction as the group's new leader in a matter of days, several senior members told Nikkei.
Abe would replace former LDP Secretary-General Hiroyuki Hosoda, who is expected to become the lower house speaker at an extraordinary parliament session on Wednesday. The Hosoda faction also would be renamed after Abe.
