Tokyo Gubernatorial Election 2016
Koike becomes first female governor of Tokyo
July 31, 2016, Tokyo, Japan - Japan's former Defense Minister Yuriko Koike, center, raises her hands as her supporters celebrate her landslide victory in the gubernatorial election with Banzai cheers at her 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-