Yoshihide Suga, who was elected Japan's prime minister by parliament on Wednesday, has kept a low profile for much of his career, and until recently was not considered a contender for the top job.Behind the scenes, however, the former chief Cabinet secretary has gotten results by taming Japan's often intractable bureaucracy to push through administrative reforms, sometimes using heavy-handed tactics.Born on Dec. 6, 1948, in a snow-covered village in Akita Prefecture to strawberry farmer Wasaburo and schoolteacher Tatsu, Suga helped out in the fields as a child and, as the eldest son, was ex…READ FULL ARTICLE
