TOKYO (KYodo) -- Shinji Ishimaru, who placed second in the Tokyo gubernatorial race in July 2024, said Wednesday that he has established a new regional political party ahead of next summer's metropolitan assembly election in Japan's capital.
Ishimaru, a 42-year-old former mayor of a city in Hiroshima prefecture, ran in the capital's gubernatorial race as an independent and garnered more votes than Renho, a prominent politician backed by Japan's largest opposition party.
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