TOKYO -- Fresh from his anointment as president of Japan's ruling party, Yoshihide Suga vowed Monday to focus on tackling the coronavirus pandemic and the nation's economic woes, rather than calling a snap election.
"I want to do work," not elections, Japan's prime minister-in-waiting told reporters in Tokyo a few hours after his widely expected landslide victory in a Liberal Democratic Party vote. "What people are asking us to do is bring the coronavirus under control and get the economy back on its feet."
