Hidehiko Yuzaki

Hidehiko Yuzaki

Hidehiko Yuzaki ( Japanese 湯 﨑 英 彦 , with a limited character set often represented as K bei or with Kana , Yuzaki Hidehiko ; born October 4, 1965 in Saeki-ku , Hiroshima , Hiroshima Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician and has been a non-party governor of Hiroshima since November 2009 .

Life

Yuzaki became a civil servant at MITI in 1990 after graduating from the Tokyo University Faculty of Law . There he worked, among other things, in the nuclear energy department of the authority for raw materials and energy ( shigen-enerugī-chō ) and in the America department. While at the Ministry, he earned an MBA from Stanford University in 1995 . In 2000 he left the ministry and moved to the private sector as a member of the board of the JASDAQ- listed communications company KK ACCA Networks from 2005 . In 2008 he left the company and founded a consulting office.

In the summer of 2009, the longtime governor of Hiroshima Yūzan Fujita announced that he would not run again in the November 2009 elections. With the support of individual members of the prefectural parliament from the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) who supported Fujita, Yuzaki announced his candidacy. The main competitor was Anri Kawai , herself a former member of parliament in Hiroshima, who was supported by opponents of Fujita from the LDP. The main topic of the election campaign was the reforms of the administration and the prefectural finances initiated by Fujita. Yuzaki was able to win the gubernatorial election on November 8, 2009 with 395,638 votes against Kawai (195,623) and three other candidates. His term of office began on November 29, 2009. On November 10, 2017, he prevailed against the challenger Atsumi Takami by an overwhelming majority and was re-elected for a third term of four years.

Web links

• Official Website (Japanese)
• Hiroshima Prefecture: Governor's Office (Japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Yuzaki wins Hiroshima gubernatorial election. In: The Japan Times . November 9, 2009, accessed December 18, 2009 . 
2. ↑ 平 成 21 年 執行 広 島 県 知事 選 挙 . Hiroshima kenchō (Hiroshima Prefectural Administration ), Senkyo kanri iinkai jimukyoku (Secretariat of the Election Oversight Commission), December 1, 2011, accessed July 1, 2019 (Japanese).