TOKYO: Considered something of a lightweight on foreign policy issues, Japans new prime minister has spent much of his career in the shadows, supporting previous leader Shinzo Abe with backroom bureaucratic maneuvers and in largely scripted, sometimes prickly dealings with the media.
That will change Saturday when Yoshihide Suga makes his very public debut, albeit virtually, at the U.N. General Assembly, the worlds premier international gathering of leaders.
Dont expect the earth to shake, though, with resounding rhetoric or wildly innovative ideas to improve Japan’s rocky ties with the nations it terrorized in WWII or its decades-long economic malaise.
Much as hes done domestically in the week and a half that hes been prime minister, Suga is eager to emphasize that hell continue the foreign policy efforts Abe…