TOKYO (Reuters) - Popular Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike is often spoken of as a candidate to become Japan's first female prime minister - but for now, the former lawmaker is having too much fun as top leader of the capital, where she says she can get things done.
Koike, who defied Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to run successfully for the job last year, was virtually tied for third place in a recent poll that ranked politicians as prime ministerial material.
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