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Tokyo: What do you think of Shintaro Ishihara's decision to give up running the capital and start a new national party? Would you vote for him?

By Mark Buckton

Nov 20, 2012

Kohei Yoshimura

Salesman, 27 (Japanese)

He did shirk his responsibility as governor of Tokyo but he has big ideas on how to improve the national government and Japan. If he waited until the end of his term as governor he would be too old, so I think he decided to quit at the right time. I would vote for him and his party at a general election.

Tokyo: What do you think of Shintaro Ishihara's decision to give up running the capital and start a new national party? Would you vote for him?

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