The ruling LDP won four seats – three narrowly – and suffered one defeat. Read more at straitstimes.com.
TOKYO – Mr Shinji Yoshida, the man hand-picked by the late prime minister Shinzo Abe’s widow Akie to take over her husband’s electoral seat in their home-town constituency of the Yamaguchi fourth district, easily won in a by-election on Sunday.
Yet a rebound in his Cabinet approval ratings – and even an apparent assassination attempt on April 15 – failed to translate into a clear-cut victory for the LDP. “I was filled with immense regret and sadness after my husband died,” she said, with Mr Yoshida by her side. “But Mr Yoshida has firmly inherited my husband’s will and spirit.”
The Abes have no children. Mr Nobuchiyo Kishi, who has a brother and two cousins, is for now the only member of the Abe-Kishi bloodline in politics.
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