Vaccination minister Taro Kono is viewed by 48.6 percent of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's rank-and-file members as most suitable to be party leader and effectively Japan's next prime minister, a Kyodo News poll showed Saturday, ahead of a tight LDP leadership election in less than two weeks.Kono is running in the Sept. 29 LDP presidential election to pick Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's successor. He is vying for the post along with former Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, Sanae Takaichi, a former minister of internal affairs and communications, and Seiko Noda, the party's executive a…READ FULL ARTICLE
