Candidates for Tokyo Governor Hold Separate Conferences Masuzoe: "Focusing on Preparations for the Olympics

January 22, 2014, Tokyo, Japan - Yoichi Masuzoe, Japan's former minister of Health, Labor and Welfare running in the February 9 Tokyo gubernatorial election, gestures as he delivers his policy during a series of news conferences at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Wednesday, January 22, 2014. The club planned to host a joint news conference one day before the official kick-off of election campaigning, but called it off due to lack of enthusiasm in candidates for expanding on their policies through public debate. The club instead hosted individual news conferences for three candidates. The 65-year-old scholar in international politics is running against former Prime Minister Morihito Hosokawa, former air force four-star general Toshio Tamogami, former head of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations and 85-year-old inventer Yoshiro Nakamatsu. (Photo by Natsuki Sakai/AFLO) AYF -mis-