By TSUNETAKA SATO/ Staff Writer
April 6, 2020 at 18:35 JST
Sawako Naito eats her favorite bracken-starch cake and sweet rice jelly after finishing the seven-day election campaign on April 4 in Tokushima. (Tsunetaka Sato)
TOKUSHIMA--A 36-year-old political newcomer with multiple sclerosis ousted an incumbent almost twice her age in the mayoral election here on April 5, becoming Japan's youngest female mayor. [Read More]
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