Nobuto Hosaka
Nobuto Hosaka | |
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保坂 展人 | |
| File:東京都世田谷区 区長 保坂展人.jpg Official portrait published by the Cabinet Office | |
| Mayor of Setagaya | |
| Assumed office 27 April 2011 | |
| Preceded by | Noriyuki Kumamoto |
| Member of the House of Representatives | |
| In office 12 September 2005 – 21 July 2009 | |
| Constituency | Tokyo PR |
| In office 21 October 1996 – 10 October 2003 | |
| Preceded by | Constituency established |
| Succeeded by | Multi-member district |
| Constituency | Tokyo PR |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 26 November 1955[1] Sendai, Miyagi, Japan |
| Party | Independent |
| Other political affiliations | SDP (1996–2011) |
| Website | hosaka.gr.jp |
Nobuto Hosaka (保坂 展人, Hosaka Nobuto) (born November 26, 1955) is a Japanese politician and the current mayor of Setagaya in Tokyo. In addition, he was a member of the House of Representatives for the Social Democratic Party until July 21, 2009.
Hosaka campaigned and won the mayor's job on an anti-nuclear platform in April 2011, just over a month after the Fukushima Daiichi 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".[2][3]
Hosaka opposes the death penalty,[4] and held the position of secretary general of the Parliamentary League for the Abolition of the Death Penalty.[5] He is also highly critical of continued Japanese moral panic against the Otaku subculture in the nation, with one notable case of criticism displayed against public and media related assumptions and gossip surrounding the incidents of November 17, 2004, when Kaoru Kobayashi murdered a 7-year-old girl.[6]
In 2006 and 2007, Hosaka joined the gay parade in Tokyo. Mizuho Fukushima, then-leader of the Social Democratic Party, also joined the event with him in 2007.[7]
See also
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- Anti-nuclear power movement in Japan
- Capital punishment in Japan
- Shizuka Kamei
- List of peace activists
References
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- ^ 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(in Japanese)
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- 1955 births
- Living people
- Japanese anti–death penalty activists
- Japanese anti–nuclear power activists
- Japanese LGBTQ rights activists
- Mayors of places in Tokyo
- Politicians from Sendai
- Activists from Sendai
- Social Democratic Party (Japan) politicians
- 21st-century mayors of places in Japan
- Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) 2005–2009
- Japanese politician, 1950s birth stubs
- Japanese mayor stubs