With less than a week to go until Tokyo’s gubernatorial election on Sunday, Governor Yuriko Koike remains in the lead, but with her main challenger Renho hot on her heels and dark horse candidate Shinji Ishimaru also building momentum.
Polls from all major news sources collected over the weekend show the 71-year-old incumbent president remains the most popular of the 56 candidates running for office, albeit by a narrow margin.
Koike is backed by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, while Renho has the support of the main opposition group, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDP), making the vote in Tokyo something of a proxy war for the national political parties.
