Japan’s PM Shigeru Ishiba resigns weeks after election debacle

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has announced his resignation as president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), just weeks after its ruling coalition suffered a historic defeat in a July election.
Ishiba’s decision to step down on Sunday comes after he initially resisted calls from within his party to resign over the electoral defeat in July, saying he wanted to make sure that a tariff deal struck with the United States was appropriately implemented.
Since assuming his role last year, the 68-year-old politician has seen electoral losses wipe out his coalition’s majority in both houses of parliament, with a bruising electoral defeat in October leaving it with a minority in the more powerful lower house.

Al Jazeera’s Rob Mcbride takes a look at his political rise and fall.

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