Nobuto Hosaka | |
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保坂 展人 | |
 Official portrait published by theCabinet Office | |
| Mayor ofSetagaya | |
| Assumed office 27 April 2011 | |
| Preceded by | Noriyuki Kumamoto |
| Member of theHouse 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 | (1955-11-26)26 November 1955 (age 70)[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 ofSetagaya inTokyo. In addition, he was a member of theHouse of Representatives for theSocial Democratic Party until July 21, 2009.
Hosaka campaigned and won the mayor's job on ananti-nuclear platform in April 2011, just over a month after theFukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. According toThe 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 ofrenewable 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 Japanesemoral panic against theOtakusubculture 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, whenKaoru 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]
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