Self-belief and strategy: Japan’s Taro Kono upends race for next premier By Reuters – Investing.com

Self-belief and strategy: Japan’s Taro Kono upends race for next premier By Reuters – Investing.com

By Elaine Lies

TOKYO (Reuters) - When Taro Kono, Japan's leading contender to be prime minister, was a senior in high school, he asked his father to send him overseas for university, but was flatly refused.

Instead, the elder Kono, a leading politician in the ruling party, took his son to a U.S. embassy reception in a bid to prove his English was not good enough.