New Delhi: Atsushi Sakima, a candidate backed by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party won the mayoral election in Ginowan, a city in the southern Japan prefecture of Okinawa that hosts a US military base. Sakima, 60, served as mayor from 2012 to 2018. He backs the closure of US Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, located in a residential area of the city, and its move to the less populated coastal district of Henoko in Nago, in line with former Mayor Masanori Matsugawa, whose sudden death in July triggered the vote, reports Kyodo news. The newly elected Mayor was also backed by the LDP’s junior coalition partner, the Komeito party. He defeated Isao Tobaru (65) a former city assembly member who
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