Tokyo elections deliver a warning to LDP – and CDP – leaders

key takeaways

• Tokyo Governor Koike Yuriko won a third term comfortably on Sunday, 7 July but a surprise second-place finisher points to growing public dissatisfaction with the politics as usual.
• Both the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the Constitutional Democratic Party (CDP) will have to adapt to this mood as they prepare for leadership elections in September.