TOKYO: The race to become the next governor of Tokyo kicked off Thursday in an election widely seen as a referendum on Japan’s energy policy, almost three years after the nuclear disaster at Fukushima.
Observers said that the election on February 9 will be a two-horse race between the anti-nuclear former prime minister Morihiro Hosokawa and Yoichi Masuzoe, an academic and former health minister, who served as a member of a Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) government.
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