Nobuto Hosaka

Nobuto Hosaka
保坂 展人
Mayor of Setagaya
Incumbent
Assumed office
27 April 2011
Preceded byNoriyuki Kumamoto
Member of the House of Representatives
In office
12 September 2005 – 21 July 2009
ConstituencyTokyo PR
In office
21 October 1996 – 10 October 2003
Preceded byConstituency established
Succeeded byMulti-member district
ConstituencyTokyo PR
Personal details
Born (1955-11-26) 26 November 1955[1]
Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
PartyIndependent
Other political
affiliations
SDP (1996–2011)
Websitehosaka.gr.jp

Nobuto Hosaka (保坂 展人, Hosaka Nobuto) (born 26 November 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 21 July 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 17 November 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

References

  1. ↑ "Profile｜プロフィール｜--元気印。--- 世田谷区長 保坂のぶとWEB". Retrieved 20 August 2016.
  2. ↑ George Nishiyama (6 February 2012). "Anti-Nuclear Tokyo Mayor Challenges Big Utilities". The Wall Street Journal.
  3. ↑ "Anti-nuclear plant candidate Hosaka wins Setagaya Ward mayoral race". Mainichi Shimbun. 25 April 2011. Retrieved 9 May 2011.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  4. ↑ "Death row: limbo of not knowing when". The Japan Times. 27 February 2007. Retrieved 10 May 2009.
  5. ↑ "Japan's way of judicial killing". The Japan Times. 8 April 2007. Retrieved 10 May 2009.
  6. ↑ "Otaku harassed as sex-crime fears mount". The Japan Times. 6 February 2005. Archived from the original on 16 December 2007. Retrieved 1 June 2008.
  7. ↑ 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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