Business leaders welcomed former health minister Yoichi Masuzoe's victory Sunday in the Tokyo gubernatorial election, which represented a victory in their efforts to prevent the anti-nuclear lobby from harming their interests.
"We are hoping that the new governor will work well with the state on a host of matters, such as the 2020 Tokyo Olympics," Hiromasa Yonekura, leader of Keidanren, said in a statement.
Yonekura, who heads Japan's most influential business lobby, also voiced hope that Masuzoe would cooperate with the central government in tackling other concerns, including disaster countermeasures to mitigate the effects of a major earthquake feared to strike the Tokyo metropolitan area.