Mr. Naoki Inose, who became vice governor of Tokyo in June 2007 under Gov. Shintaro Ishihara and served in that position until Nov. 29, 2012, won Tokyo's gubernatorial election Sunday by a landslide. He garnered a whopping 4,338,936 votes — the largest ever number of votes won by a candidate in the history of elections in Japan.
He collected some 3.37 million more votes than the runnerup, Mr. Kenji Utsunomiya, a former head of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, who called for abolishing nuclear power and strengthening social welfare measures.
Having won the trust of so many Tokyoites, Mr. Inose, as the new leader of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, must strive to improve the well-being of Tokyo residents and make Tokyo resilient to the massive earthquake that's expected to strike the capital in the future.