(MENAFN- QNA) Voting began Sunday for the gubernatorial election in Japan's Fukushima Prefecture that is being contested by six candidates who have all pledged to reconstruct the region following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami and subsequent nuclear disaster.
The six candidates hoping to succeed Gov. Yuhei Sato include former Vice Gov. Masao Uchibori, 50, Yoshihiro Kumasaka, 62, a former mayor of Miyako in Iwate Prefecture, and Katsutaka Idogawa, 68, a former mayor of Futaba in Fukushima, which hosts Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
All six candidates are running as independents, with two backed by local chapters of political parties, Japan's News Agency (Kyodo) reported.
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