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Incumbent Yuriko Koike is widely expected to seek a third term as governor. She has yet to state her intention to join the race, but was praised for successfully guiding Tokyo through the pandemic and the attendant economic slump.
Fax messages were sent on Monday to the office of the Tokyo First Party, to which Governor Yuriko Koike serves as a special adviser, and the office of a member of the group representing the city’s Toshima ward.
A public opinion poll by the Yomuiri newspaper published on Tuesday put Kishida’s approval rating at 26 per cent, the seventh consecutive month the figure was below the 30 per cent threshold.
“Japan is thinking that it should not antagonise Russia as any retaliation could be very damaging,” said Hiromi Murakami, a professor of political science at the Tokyo campus of Temple University. “Kishida and his cabinet members are keeping their distance because they fear a potential backlash.”
But the control exercised by those men is coming to an end, activists say, pointing out that if the head of the influential Japan Business Federation (Keidanren) has come around to the idea of women keeping their maiden names, it is only a matter of time before the traditionalists relent.