(7 Jul 2024)
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Tokyo – 7 July 2024
1. Various of sign outside polling station, reading (Japanese) "Tokyo’s gubernatorial election, Chuo Ward 4th polling station"
2. Voter walking into polling station
3. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Masayuki Era, 32-year-old local resident:
"I think it is better (for the new governor) to have stability. While this election is a bit crowded, I voted for whom I think is stable."
4. Close of candidate posters
5. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Kikui (No first name given), 80-year-old local resident:
"We need a change. Yes, some praise for (incumbent Governor Yuriko) Koike for hosting the Olympics, but that was with a huge expense. The nature being destroyed and selling the land for the Olympic Village at one-tenth of the price… on top of a lot of corruption within. And now we are facing the Jingu Gaien redevelopment. If we don’t change now we will fall apart."
6. Woman walking into polling station with daughter
7. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) No name given, 72-year-old local resident:
"Firstly, I appreciate a person of action. That is the most important factor when it comes to an election."
8. Various of posters
9. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) No name given, 72-year-old local resident:
"Secondly, I would say a strong sense of personal ethics. Not to deceive people. Moral value is important, I think."
10. Woman passing by board outside polling station
STORYLINE:
Voters headed to polls in Tokyo on Sunday morning with different hopes as they elect a new governor.
One resident who gave only her surname, Kikui, explained how she had seen the city she had grown up in change over the years – now with less and less nature around her.
"We need a change," Kikui said.
"If we don’t change now, we will fall apart."
A record 56 candidates, including incumbent Governor Yuriko Koike, who seeks her third four-year term, and her opposition-backed challenger Renho, are running in the vote.
Polls close at 1100GMT Sunday and the official results not expected until the following day.
Tokyo, a city of 13.5 million, has outsized political and cultural power in Japan.
AP video shot by Mayuko Ono
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