沖縄市長、自公系が３選　知事支援の新人破る―沖縄

　任期満了に伴う沖縄県沖縄市長選は２４日に投開票が行われ、無所属現職の桑江朝千夫氏（６６）＝自民、公明推薦＝が、玉城デニー知事ら「オール沖縄」勢力が支援する無所属新人で元市議の森山政和氏（７３）＝立憲民主、共産、社民推薦＝を破り、３選を果たした。自公は今年の県内４市長選で４連勝し、知事選（９月１１日投開票）での県政奪還に弾みをつけた。
　投票率は過去最低の４５．１４％だった。（2022/04/24-22:53）

A candidate backed by Japan's ruling camp won Sunday's mayoral election in a city in Okinawa Prefecture, beating his sole contender supported by the All Okinawa group including Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki and by opposition parties of the country.
   Sachio Kuwae, 66, who ran in the mayoral poll in the city of Okinawa in the southernmost Japan prefecture as an independent and backed by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its Komeito ally, defeated Masakazu Moriyama, 73, a former member of the municipal assembly of the city, securing a third consecutive four-year term.
   Moriyama, also an independent candidate, was supported by the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, the Japanese Communist Party and the Social Democratic Party, as well as All Okinawa.
   Kuwae's victory provided an additional tailwind to the LDP-Komeito pair in the run-up to the Sept. 11 Okinawa gubernatorial election, in which the ruling coalition will aim to win back the Okinawa prefectural administration. Candidates backed by the ruling bloc won mayoral elections held in three other cities in the prefecture--Nago, Nanjo and Ishigaki--earlier this year.
   Meanwhile, the defeat of Moriyama was a further blow to All Okinawa.