12:15 JST, May 10, 2024
SHIZUOKA (Jiji Press) – Six people filed their candidacies Thursday for the May 26 gubernatorial election in Shizuoka Prefecture, with voters expected to focus on candidates’ responses to the planned Chuo Shinkansen magnet line.
The six include 60-year-old Shinichi Omura, a former deputy governor of Shizuoka who is backed by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party; Yasutomo Suzuki, 66, former mayor of Hamamatsu city in the prefecture, backed by the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and the People’s Democratic Party; and Daisuke Mori, 55, prefectural chairman of the Japanese Communist Party.
The other three are former company employee Masafumi Yokoyama, 56; home business owner Takeshi Murakami, 73; and company chairman Satomi Hamanaka, 62.
Among other major parties, Komeito, the LDP’s youngest coalition partner, has not endorsed any candidate.
