Yokohama Mayor Fumiko Hayashi won a third four-year term in Sunday’s election, a result that reassured Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party, which fared poorly in two successive major local elections held recently.
Yokohama Mayor Fumiko Hayashi won a third four-year term in Sunday’s election, a result that reassured Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party, which fared poorly in two successive major local elections held recently.
Hayashi, who ran in the mayoral election as an independent, was backed by the LDP and its coalition partner, Komeito. The LDP suffered a historic defeat in the July 2 Tokyo metropolitan assembly election, while a candidate supported by the LDP and Komeito lost to an opposition-backed rival in the July 23 mayoral election in Sendai, the capital of the northeastern prefecture of Miyagi.
