Top government officials in Tokyo welcome the victory by the ruling bloc-backed candidate in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture's mayoral election, saying it will give momentum to the Futenma base relocation.
In what was seen as a proxy battle over the controversial Futenma U.S. base relocation plan, Ginowan Mayor Sakima wins re-election.
Voters in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, cast their ballots for a new mayor in a key local election with implications for the relocation of a contentious U.S. military base.
Given Kyoto’s prosperous domestic and international tourism industry, the mayoral election on Feb. 7 is widely expected to be an easy win for incumbent Daisaku Kadokawa, 65, who is backed by the Liberal Democratic Party, Komeito and the Democratic Party of Japan. His main ...
Less than two weeks remain until a local election that may influence both the planned relocation of the Futenma military base and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s effort to secure a two-thirds majority in this summer’s Upper House election. The Jan. 24 mayoral election in ...
Four days before Sunday's Osaka gubernatorial and mayoral elections, candidates backed by Mayor Toru Hashimoto's Osaka Ishin no Kai (One Osaka) are leading candidates pushed by the established parties.
Ginowan Mayor Atsushi Sakima announced a run Saturday for a second four-year term as head of the city — home to the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma — in Okinawa Prefecture. At a news conference, Sakima said he will do all he can ...
The Osaka Municipal Government’s election board decided Saturday to hold a mayoral election March 23. Mayor Toru Hashimoto, who tendered his resignation Friday, said he will seek re-election to merge the prefectural and municipal governments into a single Osaka metropolitan government by winning “a ...
The mayor of a city in Fukushima Prefecture who appeared on the U.S. Time magazine’s annual list of the world’s top 100 influential people for his YouTube post following the March 2011 disasters was re-elected in Sunday’s poll. Katsunobu Sakurai, 58, defeated former Mayor ...
January’s Nago mayoral election is now a two-man race after ex-Mayor Yoshikazu Shimabukuro ended his bid and threw his support behind Bunshin Suematsu, a Liberal Democratic Party prefectural assembly member heavily backed by Tokyo. A pro-base candidate, Suematsu is being challenged by current Mayor ...
An independent newcomer won the Fukushima mayoral election Sunday, defeating the incumbent in a sign of public discontent over the local government’s reconstruction efforts from the nuclear crisis at a Fukushima No. 1 power plant. Kaoru Kobayashi, 54, a former head of the Tohoku ...
The coming mayoral election in Nago, Okinawa, is posing a problem for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his LDP because two conservative candidates who favor its policies in the prefecture want to run, which could split the vote.
