Yoshihide Suga

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Japanese politician human

Yoshihide Suga is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 2020 to 2021, succeeding Shinzo Abe and leading the country through the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Aliases (2)

Yoshihide ×1
菅義偉 ×1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Japanese politician → human →
announcedNotToRunForLDPLeadership	2021-09 →
assumedLDPPresidency	2020-09-14 →
birthDate	1948-12-06 →
birthPlace	Yuzawa, Akita Prefecture, Japan →
cabinet	Suga Cabinet →
countryOfCitizenship	Japan →
educatedAt	Hosei University →
eraNameDuringTerm	Reiwa era →
ethnicGroup	Japanese →
familyName	Suga →
fieldOfWork	politics →
givenName	Yoshihide →
handledCrisis	early phase of COVID-19 pandemic as Prime Minister →
ideology	conservatism →
knownFor	longest-serving Chief Cabinet Secretary at the time of his tenure → serving as Prime Minister of Japan after Shinzo Abe’s resignation →
localGovernmentExperience	Yokohama City Council member →
memberOfPoliticalParty	Liberal Democratic Party of Japan →
monarchDuringTerm	Naruhito →
name	Yoshihide Suga →
nativeName	菅義偉 →
notableWork	COVID-19 pandemic response in Japan →
numberOfChildren	3 →
officeEndTime	2021-10-04 →
officeStartTime	2020-09-16 →
oversawEvent	Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics (held in 2021) →
parliamentaryConstituency	Kanagawa 2nd district →
policyFocus	administrative reform → digital transformation of government → mobile phone fee reduction in Japan →
positionHeld	Chief Cabinet Secretary of Japan → Member of the House of Representatives of Japan → Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan → Prime Minister of Japan →
precededBy	Shinzo Abe →
primeMinisterOrder	99th Prime Minister of Japan →
religion	Shinto (associated) →
residence	Tokyo, Japan →
resignedAsLDPPresident	2021-09-29 →
servedUnder	Shinzo Abe →
sexOrGender	male →
spouse	Mariko Suga →
succeededBy	Fumio Kishida →
termAsChiefCabinetSecretaryEnd	2020-09-16 →
termAsChiefCabinetSecretaryStart	2012-12-26 →
workedAs	secretary to a Diet member early in career →

Referenced by (12)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Yoshihide Suga → Yoshihide Suga →	name
Yoshihide Suga →	birthName
Yoshihide Suga ("Yoshihide") →	givenName
Kanagawa 2nd district →	hasFormerRepresentative
Jimintō →	hasNotableLeader
Kanagawa 2nd district →	hasRepresentative
Yoshihide Suga ("菅義偉") →	nativeName
Chief Cabinet Secretary →	positionHeldBy
Fumio Kishida →	predecessor
Mariko Suga →	relative
Mariko Suga →	spouse