Tokyo Votes for New Governor

Residents of Japan's capital, Tokyo, are electing a new governor after the last city head resigned last year amid scandal.Voters began casting ballots Sunday to choose a candidate from a field of 16 to lead the city of 13 million people. Tokyo's new leader will be tasked with such things as starting preparations for the 2020 Olympics, preparing for a long-feared huge earthquake and whether to end Japan's nuclear dependency.Opinion polls suggest that former Health, Labor and...

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