Japan PM Kishida’s ruling party scores big wins in local election contests

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A resounding victory in the midterm polls, along with Mr Kishida’s rise in approval ratings, will intensify talk of a snap election. Read more at straitstimes.com.

over the delayed Tokyo Olympics in 2021 that had led representatives of six companies to be charged by Tokyo prosecutors.

Mr Hirofumi Yoshimura, 47, was re-elected as governor while Mr Hideyuki Yokoyama, 41, was elected as Osaka City mayor, replacing retiring mayor Ichiro Matsui, 59, also of Ishin. Ishin’s Makoto Yamashita, 54, won the Nara governor seat after votes were split between two LDP candidates including Mr Sho Hiraki, a former secretary to economic security minister Sanae Takaichi.

LDP election strategy chairman Hiroshi Moriyama, while lamenting the loss in Nara, said: “The sweeping victories in Hokkaido and Oita, which were a direct showdown between the ruling and opposition parties, are of great significance.”

 

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