The opposition-backed former mayor of Hamamatsu won Sunday's Shizuoka gubernatorial election, dealing a blow Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's ruling party.Yasutomo Suzuki beat Shinichi Omura, who was endorsed by Kishida's Liberal Democratic Party, and other candidates.Another focal point of the close contest has been a new governor's policy on Japan's stalled project to build a high-speed maglev train line through the prefecture.Suzuki, like his main rival, is a proponent of the maglev project, the construction of which has been delayed due to persistent environmental concerns raised by forme…READ FULL ARTICLE
