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Japan elects new prime minister

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Shigeru Ishiba was elected as the new prime minister of Japan on Friday.

The country’s governing political party, the Liberal Democratic Party, voted for the former minister of defense to lead the country. Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party has primarily been the country’s ruling party since the end of World War II.

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