Mr.Hashimoto won a landslide victory

Mr.Hashimoto won a landslide victory in two elections (a mayoral election and a gubernatorial election) simultaneously held in Osaka city and Osaka Prefecture on November 27. His locally based political party "Osaka Restoration Association" established in 2010 has emerged as a power even to influence such existing political parties as the Democratic Party of Japan and the Liberal Democratic Party who supported his opponent along with the Japanese Communist Party.

A landslide victory Mr. Hashimoto and his local party secured in Sunday's voting suggests that many expect Japan's real transformation into the most powerful one, possibly shrugging off whatever worrisome issues Japan faces now. It is a proof that what Mr. Hashimoto has politicised sounds the most convincing to the voters. Mr. Hashimoto declared that he will run for the next general election of the central government if he has to. In case his policy is not accepted by the central government.

Mr. Hashimoto intends to remove all the wasteful activities in Osaka Prefecture by merging Osaka municipal government and Osaka Prefectural government into one. Within Osaka area, two major administrations exist, overlapping most of the public works. One by Osaka city and the other by Osaka Prefecture. No reconciliation has been so far made as far as efficiency of the administration is concerned.