According to NHK reports, the President of the Liberal Democratic Party election was held on September 27, Shi Pomao defeated Takashi Zaomiao in the decisive round and won the President of the Liberal Democratic Party. He is expected to be elected as Japan’s new Prime Minister at the interim parliament on October 1st.
Shek Po Mau (file photo)
Shigeru, 67, first entered politics as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in 1986, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported. In 2002 in the Junichiro Koizumi Cabinet as the Secretary of State for the Department of Defense (the predecessor of the Secretary of Defense) , became a member of the cabinet for the first time. Shih has run for President of the Liberal Democratic Party four times since 2008, but has not been elected, his fifth. Shi po-mao is considered a hawkish figure in the party, advocated by the integration of the United States, Japan, the United States and South Korea and other alliances to establish an”Asian version of NATO.”. He also advocated changing the”Asymmetrical” japan-us alliance and revising the”Status Agreement” to allow the self-defence forces to jointly manage US bases in Japan with the US military.