by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Oct 10, 2017 | World
Campaigning for the lower house election kicked off in Japan on Tuesday with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe seeking to fend off a challenge from the Tokyo governor. Up for grabs are 465 seats in the more powerful of Japan’s two-chamber parliament. The October 22...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jul 2, 2017 | World
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) suffered a crushing defeat in local Tokyo elections on Sunday, losing to the capital’s Governor Yuriko Koike’s Tokyo Citizens First party. Koike’s novice party and its allies, including...
by Najeeb al-Khash | Sep 3, 2016 | Saudi Arabia
Tokyo-Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike described the Saudi Vision 2030 as ambitious, saying it considers the people the most important wealth in the country, an approach that is highly respected given that the oil wealth was for a long time considered the foundation of...
by Najeeb Al-Khash and Asharq Al-Awsat English | Aug 1, 2016 | World
Tokyo’s new governor Yuriko Koike on Monday credited her landslide victory to having stood up to the powers that be in Japan’s ruling party who didn’t want her to run. Koike, 64, was elected Tokyo’s first female governor in the Sunday vote,...
