• Yoshihide Suga enters the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo on Wednesday. Given that Suga is still a relatively unknown quantity, some in the political and diplomatic community fret whether he will be able to maintain political stability after Shinzo Abe’s record-breaking tenure. | REUTERS
    Yoshihide Suga enters the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo on Wednesday. Given that Suga is still a relatively unknown quantity, some in the political and diplomatic community fret whether he will be able to maintain political stability after Shinzo Abe’s record-breaking tenure. | REUTERS
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It wasn’t too long ago that Yoshihide Suga was an afterthought in the post-Abe sweepstakes.

As recently as late July, the Nikkei Shimbun found that among supporters of the Liberal Democratic Party, only 4 percent supported Suga for Japan’s next prime minister, trailing not only his eventual contenders former defense minister Shigeru Ishiba and former foreign minister Fumio Kishida, but also Constitutional Democratic Party leader Yukio Edano.

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