Nobuto Hosaka
| Nobuto Hosaka | |
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| Member of the House of Representatives | |
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| Assumed office October 20, 1996 |
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| Born | November 26, 1955 Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture |
| Political party | Social Democratic Party |
| Website | hosaka.gr.jp |
Nobuto Hosaka (保坂 展人 Hosaka Nobuto) is a Japanese politician and member of the House of Representatives for the Social Democratic Party. He is currently the mayor of Setagaya, Tokyo.
Nobuto Hosaka campaigned and won the mayor’s job on an anti-nuclear platform in April 2011, just over a month after the Fukushima nuclear disaster. According to the Wall Street Journal, Hosaka "is determined to turn this city ward of 840,000 people, the largest in Tokyo, into the front-runner of a movement that will put an end to Japan’s reliance on atomic power and accelerate the use of renewable energy".[1][2]
Hosaka opposes the death penalty,[3] and holds the position of secretary general of the Parliamentary League for the Abolition of the Death Penalty.[4] He criticized a Japanese moral panic which occurred when Kaoru Kobayashi murdered a 7-year-old girl.[5][dead link]
In 2006 and 2007, Hosaka joined the gay parade in Tokyo. His boss Mizuho Fukushima also joined with him in 2007.[6]
[edit] References
- ^ George Nishiyama (February 6, 2012). "Anti-Nuclear Tokyo Mayor Challenges Big Utilities". Wall Street Journal. http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2012/02/06/anti-nuclear-tokyo-mayor-challenges-big-utilities/.
- ^ "Anti-nuclear plant candidate Hosaka wins Setagaya Ward mayoral race". The Mainichi Daily News. 2011-04-25. http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110425p2a00m0na008000c.html. Retrieved 2011-05-09.
- ^ "Death row: limbo of not knowing when". The Japan Times. 2007-02-27. http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20070227i1.html. Retrieved 2009-05-10.
- ^ "Japan's way of judicial killing". The Japan Times. 2007-04-08. http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20070408x1.html. Retrieved 2009-05-10.
- ^ "Otaku harassed as sex-crime fears mount". The Japan Times. 2005-02-06. http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fd20050206t3.html. Retrieved 2008-06-01.
- ^ 東京プライドパレード、福島さんと歩きました - 保坂展人のどこどこ日記 His official blog(Japanese)
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