TOKYO - A growing number of lawmakers within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party are saying they would back Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga in a vote to choose the successor to outgoing Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, thrusting him to the forefront of the party's leadership race.
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