Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike will announce her candidacy around June 10 for this summer’s gubernatorial election in the capital, a source said Wednesday.
Koike, a former defense minister, became governor in 2016 without the backing of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party. But the party is considering backing her this time in the July 5 election.
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