Japan’s new Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida has dissolved parliament, setting the stage for an election at the end of the month that is likely to focus mainly on the coronavirus pandemic.
Kishida’s party is promoting his push for COVID-19 measures, including supplying oral antiviral medication this year, as well as his vision of realizing a new capitalism that focuses on economic growth and redistribution of wealth.
This comes just over a week after he replaced the unpopular Yoshihide Suga in the job, boding well for his goal of maintaining a lower house majority for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.