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    How a "Library War" Helped Japan's Communists Elect a New Mayor- A Tokyo suburb's plan to close four of its six libraries triggered a citizen revolt that ended with voters electing a Communist-backed mayor, flipping 6,000 votes from people who'd never supported the JCP before.
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    How a “Library War” Helped Japan’s Communists Elect a New Mayor- A Tokyo suburb’s plan to close four of its six libraries triggered a citizen revolt that ended with voters electing a Communist-backed mayor, flipping 6,000 votes from people who’d never supported the JCP before.

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    2. redditscraperbot2 on

      I’m fuzzy on the details but didn’t this candidate then immediately renege on the library issue once they got elected?

    4. septicdeath on

      Similar thing happened in Suginami-ku. 

      Business owners formed an action group against redeveloping the park. Successfully got it reversed. The leader of the group went on to be mayor of Suginami-ku. And she did an amazing job