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Incumbent Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike celebrates after she was elected for Tokyo's gubernatorial election in Tokyo, Sunday, July 7, 2024. (Kyodo News via AP)

Tokyo’s incumbent Governor Koike projected to win a third term, exit poll results show

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Incumbent Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike celebrates after she was elected for Tokyo's gubernatorial election in Tokyo, Sunday, July 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

Tokyo’s Governor Koike declares victory after exit polls project her reelection for a third term

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

A view of the expanse of trees around Tokyo's Jingu Gaien area that are slated to be cut in order to build three skyscrapers in one of the city's most beloved park areas Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024. The controversial plan is facing strong opposition. (AP Photo/Stephen Wade)

Tokyo Governor Koike asked to stop $2.45 billion plan to remake park, famous baseball stadium

Associated Press

FILE - Ginkgo trees are seen at an area known as Jingu Gaien in Tokyo, May 12, 2023. Japanese author Haruki Murakami spoke up against a controversial redevelopment plan at the heart of Tokyo's beloved historic and green district of Jingu Gaien that would tear down a nearly century-old baseball stadium that inspired him to become a novelist and his favorite running course. (AP Photo/Stephen Wade, File)

Haruki Murakami pleads for keeping Tokyo park and baseball stadium that inspired his writing

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

This photo released by Tokyo Zoological Park Society shows Lei Lei, one of giant panda twins, 103 days after she was born at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo Monday, Oct. 4, 2021. The twin cubs, Lei Lei and her brother Xiao Xiao, which were palm-size pink creatures when born on June 23, got their names Friday, Oct. 8, 2021, chosen from hundreds of thousands of suggestions sent from fans around the country. (Tokyo Zoological Park Society via AP)

Panda cubs at Tokyo zoo get their names, to debut in January

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Tokyo, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. The growing availability of coronavirus vaccines is a “ray of hope” for hosting the Olympics next summer, Koike said Monday as Japan struggles with a new surge in infections. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

AP Interview: Tokyo leader: Vaccines give hope for Olympics

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike, left, talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the prime minister's office in Tokyo Monday, July 6, 2020. Gov. Koike, who won her second term to head the Japanese capital in Sunday's election, met with her political rival, Prime Minister Abe and agreed to cooperate in their effort to fight against the coronavirus and to safely achieve the Olympics next year. (Yoshitaka Sugawara/Kyodo News via AP)

Tokyo governor, Abe say they’ll cooperate on virus, Olympics

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 17, 2020, file photo, Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike gestures while speaking during an exclusive interview with The Associated Press at her office of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building in Tokyo, ahead of a two-week campaigning for the Tokyo gubernatorial election. Koike is poised to be reelected in Sunday, July 5, 2020 polls, buoyed by public support for her coronavirus handling despite a recent rise in infections that has raised concerns of a resurgence of the disease. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

Tokyo governor wins 2nd term, buoyed by handling of virus

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike speaks during an exclusive interview with The Associated Press at her office of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building in Tokyo Wednesday, June 17, 2020, ahead of a two-week campaigning for the election. A political go-getter, Koike even had the coronavirus crisis turn in her favor. And she repeatedly upstaged Prime Minister Shinzo Abe by taking more proactive steps ahead of him, gaining public support. Timing is also on her side now, she is cruising to a certain victory in the July 5 election for her second term as head of the Japanese capital. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Tokyo gov seeks 2nd term, says Japan unprepared for pandemic

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

City officials and Olympic organizers pause for photos before cutting the ribbon during a grand opening ceremony of the Ariake Arena, a venue for volleyball at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and wheelchair basketball during the Paralympic Games, Sunday, Feb. 2, 2020, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Tokyo cuts ribbon on another Olympic venue — Ariake Arena

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019, file photo, Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike speaks to reporters after a meeting with International Olympic Committee officials in Tokyo. The International Olympic Committee abruptly announced two weeks ago it was moving next year’s Olympic marathon from Tokyo to the northern city of Sapporo. The change has infuriated Koike and created a public fight between the powerful, Switzerland-based IOC, and Tokyo which is spending about $25 billion to organize the Olympics - 80% public money. (Kyodo News via AP, File)

Tokyo gives in: Olympic marathons head north to Sapporo

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019, file photo, Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike, right, shakes hands with International Olympic Committee member John Coates during their meeting in Tokyo. The IOC abruptly announced two weeks ago it was moving next year’s Olympic marathon from Tokyo to the northern city of Sapporo. Coates, who supervises Tokyo preparations, said the decision was made based on “what we saw in Doha, Qatar.” (Kyodo News via AP)

Q&A: Things to know about feud over Tokyo’s Olympic marathon

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 6, 2019, file photo, Lelisa Desisa, of Ethiopia, wins the men's marathon at the World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar. The IOC is seeking to relocate next summer’s Olympic marathon from steamy Tokyo to the cooler northern city of Sapporo after seeing competitors collapse in extreme heat at the world championships in Qatar. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)

Runners mixed on plan to move Olympic marathon out of Tokyo

By JAKE SEINER - Associated Press

A prospective buyer checks frozen tunas before bidding during the first auction at the newly opened Toyosu Market, new site of Tokyo's fish market, in Tokyo Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018. Tokyo's famous fish market reopened Thursday at a new location but with an old tradition: the tuna auction. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

New Tokyo fish market starts traditionally with tuna auction

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, rear center, leads opening ceremony for new site of Tokyo's fish market which will officially open to the public next month, in Tokyo Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018. Tokyo's hugely popular Tsukiji fish market will be closed for up to five years while it is modernized and turned into a food theme park. The fish market's move to Toyosu was originally scheduled for last year but has been delayed due to contamination of underground water at the new complex. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Tokyo chief opens replacement for city’s iconic fish market

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

In this Friday, Jan. 26, 2018 photo, Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike holds a brochures of a 2018 draft budget while speaking during a press conference in Tokyo. Koike explained the city will more than double the billions it is already budgeting to stage the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. However, the International Olympic Committee and Tokyo organizers say the city’s added costs are for many projects that would have been done - with our without the Olympics. (Noriko Kawamura/Kyodo News via AP)

2020 Tokyo Olympic costs keep rising despite efforts to cut

By STEPHEN WADE and MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, center, cheers with the lawmakers of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, at the launch of the party's election headquarters in Tokyo, Thursday, Sept 28, 2017. A surge of popularity for a freshly minted opposition party in Japan is making Prime Minister Abe’s decision to call a snap election look riskier than initially thought. Abe dissolved the lower house of parliament Thursday, setting the stage for an Oct. 22 vote. (Takuya Inaba/Kyodo News via AP)

Shinzo Abe, Japan’s prime minister, faces new challenge as he calls snap election

By Mari Yamaguch and Ken Moritsugu - Associated Press

In this Thursday, June 29, 2017 photo, Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike waves to a crowd during her “Tomin (Tokyoites) First” party's campaign rally for Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election in Tokyo. Tokyo residents were voting for the city's assembly in an election Sunday, July 2, 2017, that could alter national politics as the populist governor Koike aims to strengthen her base and challenge Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's scandal-laden ruling party. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)

Tokyo governor’s party heads for big win in city election

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, left, arrives at Haneda Airport in Tokyo Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016. Bach is set to meet Tokyo's governor pushing for changes to some of the planned venues for the 2020 Games. (Hiroki Yamauchi/Kyodo News via AP)

Thomas Bach reminds Tokyo to stick with current venue plans

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Cool it: Japan pushes light office wear in heat

By Tomoko A. Hosaka - Associated Press