Japan Ruling Bloc Alarmed by Losses in Tokyo Assembly Election

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Tokyo, June 23 (Jiji Press)–A sense of crisis spread inside Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s ruling coalition ahead of a national election this summer following its lackluster showing in Sunday’s election for the Tokyo metropolitan assembly. Officials at the Liberal Democratic Party, headed by Ishiba, blamed the party’s record-low result on the fallout of a slush fund scandal invol…

Tokyo, June 23 (Jiji Press)–A sense of crisis spread inside Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s ruling coalition ahead of a national election this summer following its lackluster showing in Sunday’s election for the Tokyo metropolitan assembly. Officials at the Liberal Democratic Party, headed by Ishiba, blamed the party’s record-low result on the fallout of a slush fund scandal invol…