China News Service, August 28. According to the Japan Broadcasting Association (NHK), on the afternoon of the 28th local time, Shigeru Ishiba, the former secretary-general of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, expressed his willingness to run for the next president of the Liberal Democratic Party.

  Earlier, Toshihiro Nikai, secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, said that the Liberal Democratic Party’s personnel adjustment and cabinet reorganization will be held in September as planned.