Masaru Hashimoto
Masaru Hashimoto ( Japanese 橋本 昌 , Hashimoto Masaru ; born November 19, 1945 in Tōkai , Naka-gun , Ibaraki Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician and served as governor of Ibaraki Prefecture from 1993 to 2017.
Hashimoto studied law at the University of Tokyo . After graduating in 1969, he became an officer in the Ministry of the Interior . At times he also worked for the State Land Authority and the Fire and Disaster Protection Authority .
In 1993, Hashimoto left the ministry to run for governorship after Governor Takeuchi Fujio , who had been in office since 1975, resigned because of the “ Zenekon corruption scandal”. With the support of the LDP , Renewal Party , New Japan Party and New Sakigake Party , he won the election on September 26, 1993. He has been re-elected five times since then, most recently on September 8, 2013. On August 27, 2017, however, he was defeated by the LDP and Kōmeitō supported candidate Kazuhiko Ōigawa, a former MITI official and IT manager.
In 2000, Hashimoto's consent to the planned resumption of operation of the reprocessing plant in his hometown of Tōkai, where it had burned in 1997, was controversial . Commissioning had already been postponed several times after the Tōkaimura nuclear accident occurred in 1999 in a fuel processing plant in Tōkai .
Web links
- Official Website (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ thediplomat.com August 29, 2017
- ^ The Japan Times, March 28, 2000: Tokai reprocessing plant closed in '97 files to reopen
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Hashimoto, Masaru |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 橋本 昌 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 19, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tōkai , Naka-gun , Ibaraki Prefecture |