This might be Yoshihide Suga, new PM of Japan, perhaps. See this post I made in this forum a few days ago:
. . . ess control-freak, mired in corruption and scandal, with ties to yakuza, squelching the press and any reporters who ask too many questions, and likewise any bureaucrats who don’t toe his line. Also squelched a rape accusation against one of his buddies.
Sounds to me a lot like the hypothetical “next Trump only competent” that we’ve worried about in other threads here.