Asahi :: Monday, April 27, 2009

• Kawamura wins in Nagoya(4/27)
  NAGOYA--Takashi Kawamura, a former Lower House member supported by Minshuto (Democratic Party of Japan), looked set Sunday to become Nagoya's next mayor.
  
  Kawamura, 60, was well ahead of three other candidates including Masahiko Hosokawa, a 54-year-old former head of the Chubu Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry, backed by the prefectural branches of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and New Komeito, and Yoshiro Ota, 65, a business group leader in Aichi Prefecture, supported by the Japanese Communist Party.(IHT/Asahi: April 27,2009)
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