Incumbent Uchibori set to be re-elected as Fukushima governor

Incumbent Fukushima Gov. Masao Uchibori won a sweeping victory for his second term Sunday, beating three challengers.The 54-year-old governor garnered 650,982 votes against the three candidates -- Jun Kanayama, 78, a self-employed worker, Sho Takahashi, 30, an IT company owner, and Kazushi Machida, 42, prefectural chairman of the Japanese Communist Party.Machida collected 35,029 votes while Kanayama and Takahashi won less than 20,000 votes each.While all four candidates ran as independents, Uchibori received support from the ruling and opposition parties, except for the communist party.The …READ FULL ARTICLE