from today's Nikkei

東京　石原氏が３選　１３知事選　現職の９氏全勝　神奈川松沢氏　福岡麻生氏４選
５対決区は自民３勝
Votes for the 16th unified local elections, such as 13 gubernatorial elections and 4 ordinace-designated city's mayoral elections, were counted on the sunday evening.In tokyo, incumbent governor Shintaro Ishihara was elected to a third term of four years.In the 13 gubernatorial elections, incumbent 9 governors all won the election.In Kanagawa prefecture, Narifumi Matsuzawa was reelected, and In Fukuoka Prefecture, Wataru aso was elected to a fourth four-year term.At the showdowns between LDP and DPJ in the 5 constituencies,LDP got three wins.

from yesterday's Nikkei

時下総額　アジア企業が躍進　１兆円超１０９社　日本に肉薄　高い成長性、投資呼ぶ
In the world stock markets, corporates' values have been increasing. The number of the companies whose market capitalizations in terms of yen exceeded 1 trillion yen as of the end of March topped one thousand for the first time. Especially, Asian companies were conspicuous among them, with one in ten companies, concretely 109, being Asians.Like this, Asian companies have been closing in Japanese companies.Behind this there was a fact that Asian market was evaluated as a high growth one and then investment funds across the world flowed in there.