YOKOHAMA: Yoshihide Suga, the man set to be elected Japan’s next prime minister on Wednesday, is a farmer’s son with a reputation for inscrutability who has been a key government adviser and policy enforcer.

The 71-year-old easily won the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s leadership race on Monday and is all but certain to win a parliamentary vote Wednesday and replace outgoing premier Shinzo Abe.

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