TOKYO - Having long been seen as a potential successor to Japan's longest-serving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, former Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida won the presidency of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party in his second bid for the party leadership and as such becomes the new prime minister.
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