Naoki Inose resigned due to his corruption scandal.
I've written about it before.
My articles;
http://mytokyoolympics.blogspot.jp/2013/12/tokyo-governer-acts-as-drag-again.html
http://mytokyoolympics.blogspot.jp/2013/12/tokyo-governor-inose-finally-resigned.html
The next Tokyo governor Yoichi Masuzoe resigned due to the misuse of political funds.
His excuse press conference
(from: http://www.iza.ne.jp)
Family trip
Dinning out with his family
Buying paintings
Buying comics
Cloths etc.
Such kinds of things were revealed one after another.
He said each time hopelessly stupid and shallow excuses.
Also, his TOO luxury business trips were revealed.
He tried hard to remain the Tokyo governor. Even after his resignation was decided, he begged for being the governor until September. He certainly wanted to participate in the closing ceremony of the Rio Olympics to receive the Olympic flag.
He is pathetic.
Yuriko Koike was elected the Tokyo governor.
Koike at here inaugural press conference
(from: www.sankei.com)
There were some complicated issues in the gubernatorial election, but I won't mention those here because they are not Olympic issues but politics issues.
She won a landslide election.
Actually, it is said that she and the president of the TOCOG* Yoshiro Mori has been on bad terms.
(*TOCOG: The Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games)
And, Koike run for the governor against intention of the LDP which she belongs and the candidate who the LDP supported took a shellacking. So there is something between Koike and the LDP. Prime minister Abe assigned Tamayo Marukawa as the Olympic minister just after Koike became the governor.
New Olympic minister, Tamayo Marukawa
(from: www.sankei.com)
Marukawa is seen as a kind of countermeasure against Koike.
For success of the Tokyo Olympics, those 3 persons need to work together in close coordination though........
Mori, Koike, Marukawa
(from: www.hochi.co.jp)
grt
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