Broadcasters gave top play to reports on the results of yesterday’s Yokohama mayoral election in which a candidate backed by PM Suga suffered a major defeat, PM Suga’s comment today that he still plans to run in the LDP presidential election (NHK, NTV, TBS, Fuji TV), and the number of seriously ill COVID-19 patients in Japan reaching 1,898 as of Sunday (TV Asahi).
