Tomihisa Taue
Tomihisa Taue | |
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田上 富久 | |
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Tomihisa Taue in July 2011
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Mayor of Nagasaki | |
Assumed office April 22, 2007 |
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Preceded by | Iccho Itoh |
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Born | Gotō, Nagasaki, Japan |
December 10, 1956
Alma mater | Kyushu University |
Tomihisa Taue (田上 富久 Taue Tomihisa?, born December 10, 1956), is a Japanese politician and the current mayor of Nagasaki, the capital city of Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, he first took office in 2007. He was a graduate from Kyushu University, and majored in jurisprudence.
He is a career employee of the municipal government, which he first joined in 1980, eventually serving as head of its statistics department.[1]
He was elected mayor of Nagasaki in a special election in 2007 following the assassination of Iccho Itoh in the midst of the 2007 unified local elections. He was re-elected in the April 2011 elections and ran unopposed in the April 2015 elections, the first uncontested mayoral election in Nagasaki history.[1]
In 2007, he criticized Fumio Kyuma, then the Minister of Defense, as the mayor of Nagasaki for his remark on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.[2][3]
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