• Jun Sawada (left), president and chief executive officer of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp., and Kazuhiro Yoshizawa, president and chief executive officer of NTT Docomo Inc., attend a news conference, as seen on a smartphone in Tokyo on Tuesday. | BLOOMBERG
    Jun Sawada (left), president and chief executive officer of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp., and Kazuhiro Yoshizawa, president and chief executive officer of NTT Docomo Inc., attend a news conference, as seen on a smartphone in Tokyo on Tuesday. | BLOOMBERG
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New Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has apparently been welcomed by the general public, with recent polls by local media showing approval ratings of over 60 percent.

Expectations are high, but not everyone is quite so happy.

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