2017 Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly Election: Historic Defeat for Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly Liberal Democrats
July 2, 2017, Tokyo, Japan - Hakubun Shimomura, in a light blue tie, chairman of the Federation of the Tokyo Metropolitan Liberal Democratic Party Branches is in a gloomy mood as LDP takes a historical defeat by an upstart political party of Gov. Yuriko Koike in an election for the 127-seat Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly during a news conference at the party's election headquarters in Tokyo on Sunday, July 2, 2017. The contest was widely viewed as a referendum on Koike's first year in office after she became Tokyo's first female governor in August last year. (Photo by Natsuki Sakai/AFLO) AYF -mis-