Tanaka urged to run for Tokyo governor

Tanaka urged to run for Tokyo governor

The file photo shows Makiko Tanaka, a Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) member of the House of Representatives, who has been named by LDP members of the Tokyo metropolitan assembly as the party's candidate in this spring's Tokyo gubernatorial election. Tanaka, 54, daughter of late Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka, said earlier, 'I will never run (in the Tokyo poll) because I am backed by voters in Niigata Prefecture.'

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