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Japan (Ehime): Unlike the relatively dramatic Fukuoka mayoral, the race to be governor of this Shikoku prefecture is set to be very sedate - although not as sedate as the election for the mayor of its capital, decided earlier this week without a vote being conducted.
Ehime has not had a competitive gubernatorial election since 1999, and the last truly close race here was in 1971. There are already signs that three-term incumbent Tokihiro Nakamura (Ind, *) will not be responsible for bucking that trend.
Nakamura has been endorsed by LDP (Conservative), Komei (Centre-right), and DPP (Centre-right). His lone opponent, Noriko Hayashi, is a JCP (Left) partisan - a break from the usual JCP practice of presenting as a united citizens' opposition, maybe a sign of weakness for Hayashi.
