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...defeated the major party candidates. Governors with an independent streak are starting to stand up to the national government. Nationalist novelist Shintaro Ishihara, Governor of Tokyo, imposed a controversial local tax on banks last year. Tanaka has found inspiration in all of those moves. "He's revolutionary," says Ikuo Kabashima, a professor of law at the University of Tokyo. "It's not necessarily a question of whether he works within the system with a correct policy. He wants to destroy the existing system and create something...
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