The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.----------Japan's ruling party kicks off campaigning for leadership electionTOKYO - Campaigning for the Japanese ruling party's leadership election to choose the successor to Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga officially started Friday, with four veteran lawmakers vying over policy steps to better fight the novel coronavirus and deal with an increasingly assertive China and other challenges facing the country.In a tightly contested race for the Sept. 29 Liberal Democratic Party presidential election, vaccination minister T…READ FULL ARTICLE