Hirokazu Nakaima

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Hirokazu Nakaima with the US Ambassador Tom Schieffer

Hirokazu Nakaima ( Japanese 仲 井 眞 弘 多 , Nakaima Hirokazu ; born August 19, 1939 in Osaka ; registered in Naha , Okinawa Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician and was the independent governor of Okinawa from 2006 to 2014.

Life

Nakaima, a graduate of the University of Tokyo , became a civil servant at MITI in his senior year 1961 . From 1987 he worked several times for the Okinawa Denryoku power company , from 1995 as president, from 2003 as chairman. In between he was lieutenant governor of Okinawa from 1990 to 1993 under the social democrat Masahide Ōta and from 2001 chairman of the Okinawa Chamber of Commerce and Industry ( Okinawa shōkōkai gisho rengōkai ).

In 2006 Nakaima applied for governorship with the support of the then national governing parties LDP and Kōmeitō and the outgoing governor Keiichi Inamine . The main opposing candidate was the Upper House MP Keiko Itokazu from the Okinawa Shakai Taishūtō ("Socialist Mass Party Okinawa"), which was also supported by the DPJ and the SDP . The topics of the election campaign were economic development, the US military presence, which is concentrated within Japan on Okinawa, and the relocation of several bases. Nakaima announced that he would like to continue the economic policy of Inamin, support the interests of medium-sized companies and make Okinawa a center of information technology. He rejects the restructuring plans of the US military like the majority of the population, but tried to keep the issue of the bases in the background and - in contrast to Itokazu - signaled a willingness to negotiate with the central government. With a relatively high voter turnout of 64%, Nakaima (347,303 votes) narrowly beat Itokazu (309,985 votes); the candidate of the Ryūkyū-dokuritsu-tō ("Ryūkyū Independence Party"), Chōsuke Yara, was beaten in third place with 6,220 votes. Nakaima's tenure began on December 10, 2006.

As governor, Nakaima took part in popular protests against the glossing over of Okinawa's mass suicide in Japanese school books and against crimes committed by US military personnel. In 2009, the DPJ under Yukio Hatoyama took over the government at national level , which had initially opposed the plans of the US military during the election campaign, but then described the relocation of the controversial Futenma base within Okinawa as possibly inevitable. Nakaima again signaled willingness to negotiate with the government in Tokyo, which is in talks with representatives of the US government.

In the gubernatorial election on November 28, 2010 , Nakaima applied for a second term with the support of the LDP and Kōmeitō. The Democratic Party, which ruled at national level, did not support any candidate in view of the still unsolved problem of the relocation of the base. Nakaima's most important rival candidate Yōichi Iha, previously mayor of Ginowan , whose candidacy was supported by the SDP, KPJ and Taishūtō, was strongly against keeping the base in Okinawa, while Nakaima was still willing to negotiate, but in the election campaign was more clear than before in favor of a relocation . Nakaima received 335,708 votes, Iha 297,082, a third candidate from the Kōfuku-jitsugen-tō , who pleaded for the planned restructuring within Okinawa, ended up being beaten in third place with 13,116.

In the 2014 election, Nakaima was defeated by the base opponent Takeshi Onaga , previously mayor of Naha City.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eric Johnston: Nakaima wins Okinawa race. Economic issues appear to win out over US base opposition. In: The Japan Times . November 20, 2006, accessed December 18, 2009 .
  2. ↑ 沖 縄 県> 沖 縄 県 知事 選 挙 . (No longer available online.) In: ザ ・ 選 挙 . JANJAN (Japan Alternative News for Justices and New Cultures) September 17, 2008, archived from the original January 7, 2010 ; Retrieved November 20, 2009 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.senkyo.janjan.jp
  3. ↑ Okinawan's reject anti-US option. In: BBC News . November 19, 2006, accessed December 18, 2009 .
  4. ^ Huge Japan protest over textbook. In: BBC News . September 29, 2007, accessed December 18, 2009 .
  5. ↑ US marine hero over Japan rape. In: BBC News . February 11, 2008, accessed December 18, 2009 .
  6. ^ Nakaima gets flexible on Futenma. In: The Japan Times . October 4, 2009, accessed December 18, 2009 .
  7. ^ Nakaima OKs base move - with proviso. In: The Japan Times . October 15, 2009, accessed December 18, 2009 .
  8. ↑ Futenma decision awaits talks outcome: Nakaima. In: The Japan Times . December 1, 2009, accessed December 18, 2009 .
  9. ↑ DPJ won't field candidate in Okinawa poll. In: The Japan Times . October 15, 2010, accessed October 22, 2010 .
personal data
SURNAME Nakaima, Hirokazu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 仲 井 眞 弘 多 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Osaka