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The Tokyo election is significant as the Japanese capital accounts for 11.1 per cent of the country s population. - Reuters TOKYO (The Straits Times/ANN): The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), Japan’s national ruling party but the opposition in the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly, wrested back the lead in a local election on Sunday (July 4). But this was not enough for the party to secure a majority in the 127-seat assembly, together with its coalition partner Komeito, in Japan’s most populous and prosperous prefecture. Sunday s election, which put the spotlight on Covid-19 measures and the looming Olympic Games, is being closely watched, with local media framing it as a prelude to a general election that Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga must call by Oct 21.

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