Japan's Political Landscape Shifts with New Leadership Race and Youthful Candidates

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Japan's ruling party, the LDP, is holding a leadership election that could make Sanae Takaichi the country's first female prime minister or Shinjiro Koizumi its youngest leader in the modern era, amid a party in crisis and a sluggish economy.
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