“very severe judgment”

• A “very severe judgment”: That’s what Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called voters’ resounding rejection of his party, the Liberal Democrats, in Tokyo elections.
All but one of the 50 municipal seats went to the upstart Tomin First Party, founded by Tokyo’s governor, Yuriko Koike. She is widely believed to have ambitions to become Japan’s first female prime minister, possibly as Mr. Abe’s successor.