Naoki Inose

Naoki Inose

Naoki Inose ( Japanese 猪 瀬 直樹 , Inose Naoki ; born November 20, 1946 in Iiyama , Nagano Prefecture ) is a Japanese publicist and politician and was the governor of Tokyo Prefecture from 2012 to 2013 .

Inose graduated from Shinshu University's Faculty of Humanities in Matsumoto . As a student, he came into contact with the "New Left" ( shin-sayoku ) in the student movement of the 1960s and in 1969 led the local section of the Zenkyōtō ( 全 共 闘 ), which was a key player in the student protest of the late 1960s - according to the organization sometimes as a Zenkyōtō uprising, generation Zenkyōtō u. called. After graduating, he moved to the capital, got married, worked for a publishing company and graduated from Meiji University's graduate school . He began to write in the 1980s, and his debut in 1983 was followed by numerous publications, particularly on modern society and recent Japanese history.

He came into direct contact with politics in 2001 when he became a member of an advisory committee of the Koizumi cabinet on administrative reform, in 2002 of a committee to promote the privatization of the four public road operators ( dōro kankei yon-kōdan ), of which he was a member until 2005. At the same time he taught as a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo, from 2006 as an associate professor at the Tōkyō Kōgyō Daigaku . In 2007 he became a member of a commission advising the Prime Minister on decentralization reforms.

In June 2007, Tokyo's governor Shintaro Ishihara appointed him shortly after his re-election in April as one of Tokyo’s four lieutenant governors . When Ishihara resigned in October 2012, Inose became acting governor until he himself declared his candidacy in the upcoming new election in December 2012 . His candidacy was supported by Ishihara and the center-right parties; against the left-wing Kenji Utsunomiya and seven other competitors Inose prevailed with a two-thirds majority and an absolute vote record of over 4.3 million votes. He took office immediately.

In December 2013 Inose announced his resignation in the donation scandal surrounding the Tokushūkai hospital group of the Shūgiin MP Takeshi Tokuda's family .

Web links

• Official Website (Japanese)
• Tokyo Prefecture Administration : Governor's Office (Japanese, English )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tokyo Gov. Inose announces resignation over money scandal. (No longer available online.) In: Mainichi Shimbun . December 19, 2013, archived from the original on December 20, 2013 ; accessed on December 20, 2013 . 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.