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JAPAN

Suga sticks with Cabinet continuity

The new head of Japan's ruling party, Yoshihide Suga, in line to become the next prime minister, appeared set on Tuesday to continue his predecessor's policies by keeping key Cabinet ministers and party officials in their posts, as he had promised. Suga, the chief Cabinet secretary under outgoing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, on Monday won a landslide victory to take over the Liberal Democratic Party. He pledged to carry on many of Abe's programs, including his "Abenomics" strategy. Finance Minister Taro Aso and Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi are likely to stay in their positions, media predicted.