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• Shinzō Abe  + (<font face="{{{font}}}">“If the LDP … <font face="{{{font}}}">“If the LDP paid attention to public opinion polls or party members, Ishiba would be a serious contender. However, the key issue is that among the party elite he is unpopular. Abe – who, like mob bosses everywhere, maintains power by rewarding loyalty and punishing dissent – dislikes Ishiba with a passion.</br>This seems to leave the path to the premiership open to Chief Cabinet Secretary [[Yoshihide Suga]], 71, who has been Abe’s right hand man since he took office.</br>Indications are that Suga had been secretly anointed successor prior to Abe’s resignation as he made a whirlwind of [[TV]] appearances over the summer while Abe appeared to be convalescing from his illness or hiding from the press.</br>From July, Abe, Suga and LDP Secretary General Toshihiro Nikai, 81, were reportedly meeting to figure out how to insert Suga into the top spot. Nikai is considered the king-maker within the party, with a goal of ensuring that nothing really changes. </br>Curiously, Suga got into some trouble last year when it emerged that [[Yakuza]] had attended an annual cherry blossom-viewing party hosted by Abe. And certainly, the LDP, like all Yakuza, have problems with [[police]] and [[prosecutors]].</br>It’s not clear who authorised the payments. Kawai allegedly said that the vote-buying yen was from Abe, the LDP’s head at the time. </br>A possible misuse of public funds to hold cherry blossom viewing parties for Abe supporters is another potential scandal that involves more than just Abe. </br>[[Jin Igarashi]], a political science professor emeritus at [[Hosei University]] in [[Tokyo]], theorised on the real reason for Suga’s rise in evening tabloid, Nikkan Gendai. </br>“The purpose of having Suga run in the election is to put a lid on all the scandals the Abe administration has accumulated,” Igarashi wrote. “If anyone other than Suga becomes PM, all of this could be investigated, and that’s dangerous. That’s why Nikai and Suga rigged the whole thing.””t’s why Nikai and Suga rigged the whole thing.””)

• Shinzō Abe  +