Tomihisa Taue Explained

Tomihisa Taue
Native Name Lang:ja
Office:Mayor of Nagasaki
Term Start:April 22, 2007
Term End:April 25, 2023
Predecessor:Iccho Itoh
Successor:Shiro Suzuki
Birth Date:10 December 1956
Birth Place:Gotō, Nagasaki, Japan
Alma Mater:Kyushu University

, is a Japanese politician and the mayor of Nagasaki, the capital city of Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan from 2007 to 2023.

Life

Taue is a graduate of Kyushu University, and majored in jurisprudence.

He began his career as a civil servant at the municipal government, which he first joined in 1980, eventually serving as a department manager of the statistics department.[1]

Taue 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.

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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Notes and References

  1. News: 長崎市長選. 19 April 2015. NHK. 19 April 2015.
  2. Web site: Japan defense chief quits over gaffe. USA Today. July 3, 2007. August 26, 2010.
  3. Web site: Minister quits over A-bomb gaffe. Peter. Alford. The Australian. July 4, 2007. August 26, 2010.