THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
July 8, 2022 at 17:33 JST
Genta Koja, center, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party candidate in the Upper House race in Okinawa Prefecture, appears with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, left, at a campaign event in Ginowan on July 1 along with Atsushi Sakima, who is expected to run in the September gubernatorial election. (Yoshichika Yamanaka)
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