Voting in Tokyo metropolitan assembly election to begin July 4

Voters will head to polling stations across the Japanese capital on Sunday to cast their ballots in the Tokyo metropolitan assembly election, with the outcome possibly giving a foretaste of the lower house election to be held by this fall.The ruling coalition in national politics aims to displace Tomin First no Kai, a regional party founded by Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike, as the leading force in the 127-seat assembly and secure a combined majority through the country's largest regional assembly election with some 11 million eligible voters.Tomin First, for which Koike now serves as special advi…READ FULL ARTICLE