Japan PM Suga’s LDP falls short in Tokyo assembly election

The Tokyo election is significant as the Japanese capital accounts for 11.1 per cent of the country's population. - Reuters

TOKYO (The Straits Times/ANN): The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), Japan’s national ruling party but the opposition in the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly, wrested back the lead in a local election on Sunday (July 4).

But this was not enough for the party to secure a majority in the 127-seat assembly, together with its coalition partner Komeito, in Japan’s most populous and prosperous prefecture.