Tokyo Gubernatorial Election 2016
Koike becomes first female governor of Tokyo
July 31, 2016, Tokyo, Japan - Japan's former Defense Minister Yuriko Koike, center, beams a big smile as she celebrates her landslide victory in the gubernatorial election with her jubilant supporters at the election headquarters in her own precinct in Tokyo's Ikebukuro Koike, a 64-year-old former newscaster-turned-politician, becomes the first female governor of the nation's capital, defeating two major candidates who were supported by the ruling bloc and a coalition of four opposition parties. AYF-mis-