MITO, Japan (AP) — Fumio Kishida, the man soon to become Japan’s prime minister, says he believes raising incomes is the only way to get the world’s third-largest economy growing again. Topping Kishida’s to-do list is another big dose of government spending to help Japan recover from the COVID-19 shock. Analysts say Kishida, who is all-but-certain to be elected prime minister by Parliament on Monday, is unlikely to stray far from Abe’s playbook of heavy doses of stimulus. Neither did the current prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, who is stepping aside after one year in office. “They’re solvable but that needs a prime minister with a will to act, who has a strategy.”
