Yoshihide Suga

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Does Yoshihide Suga drink alcohol?: No (he is a teetotaler) [8]Kyodo News.Yoshihide Suga is a Japanese politician who succeeded Shinzo Abe as the Prime Minister of Japan on 16 September 2020. He is considered the most prominent Abe loyalist who has held many key posts, including the post of Chief Cabinet Secretary.Sugas rise to the top post is all the more notable in a country where the top political posts have a history to be ruled by dynasties. Shinzo Abe, for instance, is the son of a foreign minister and the grandson of a prime minister.Suga has paved his way to the top post in Japan from the scratches as he comes from a farm in the snowy, northwestern prefecture of Akita. While talking about the hardships of living in a snowy region, he says, This feeling can be understood only by people who live in snowy regions in rural areas. My patience was fostered by the countryside before I realized it..He was born as the eldest son to a strawberry farmer, Wasaburo, and a schoolteacher, Tatsu. His father also worked for South Manchuria Railway Co. during World War II. Following the countrys surrender in World War II, Wasaburo returned to Japan where he developed a late-harvest variety of strawberry. While talking about his parents, Suga says, My parents were hard workers. They returned home from fields around the time I got up. People in the countryside are all like that..As a child, Suga helped his parents in their farmland, and he was expected to eventually take on the family business; however, he was reluctant to become a farmer, and reportedly, after high school, the 18-year-old Suga basically ran away from home to find work in Tokyo. [9]BBC.After Suga landed in Tokyo, he got a job in a cardboard factory. Later, disillusioned by the nature of the job, he quit that cardboard factory job and got himself enrolled at Hosei University in 1969. It was the time when the wave of student protests against the Japan-U.S. security alliance and the Vietnam War had gripped the entire country; however, according to Suga, he had no interest in such student protests. [10]Kyodo News.While studying at Hosei University, Suga got himself busy with various jobs, such as working as a security guard and low-level newsroom assistant to pay the university fee. [11]Kyodo News.During his student life, Suga was a sports enthusiast, and he was the vice-captain of the University Karate team. [12]Kyodo News Yoshihide Suga (far right) when he was a member of a Karate club in Hosei University.In high school, Suga was also a member of the schools baseball team. Yoshihide Suga (far right in the back row) and his teammates in his junior high school baseball team.