TOKYO -- Fumio Kishida, a former foreign minister, won a four-way race to lead Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Wednesday, setting him up to succeed Yoshihide Suga as prime minister and take the party into a general election this autumn.
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Fumio Kishida poses for a picture at the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters after he was elected as the party president in Tokyo on Sept. 29. (Photo by Kai Fujii)
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