Junya Ogawa elected new leader of Japan’s main opposition Centrist Reform Alliance

A man in a suit speaking at a podium with a blue backdrop featuring the logo of the Centrist Reform Alliance.

TOKYO — Junya Ogawa was elected new leader of Japan’s main opposition force, the Centrist Reform Alliance (CRA), on Friday.

Ogawa, former secretary general of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDPJ), won a simple majority vote by the party’s 49 lower house lawmakers against Takeshi Shina, the CDPJ’s former acting policy chief.  (Xinhua)

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