TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's favoured candidate won Sunday's election for governor of Tokyo, quashing efforts to make the vote a referendum on Abe's pro-nuclear energy policy nearly three years after the Fukushima disaster
The widely-expected victory by former health minister Yoichi Masuzoe comes as a relief for Abe, who had suffered a rare setback in another local election last month.
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