Shingo Mimura

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Shingo Mimura ( Japanese 三 村 申 吾 , Mimura Shingo ; born April 16, 1956 in Momoishi (today: Oirase ), Aomori Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician and has been a governor of Aomori since 2003.

life and career

Mimura, a graduate of the University of Tokyo , was employed by the publishing house Shinchōsha in his senior year 1981 . In 1987 he returned to his homeland and was elected mayor of Momoishi in 1992. After one term, he tried to switch to national politics in the 1996 Shūgiin election , but was defeated by Akinori Eto ( LDP ) as a candidate for the New Progress Party in the second constituency of Aomori with almost 800 votes . In the elections four years later he ran again, now for the Mushozoku no Kai ("Assembly of Independents"), and won against Eto. As a member of parliament, he supported, like his party colleague Hiroshi Nakada, the policy of liberalizing the economy of Jun'ichirō Koizumi (LDP), for whom both of them voted against their faction in the 2001 election as prime minister.

When Aomori's governor, Morio Kimura , who was only re-elected in January 2003, resigned in June of the same year over a sex scandal in front of a motion for a vote of no confidence by the prefectural parliament, Mimura resigned from his seat in order to apply for Kimura's successor. His candidacy was financially supported by the LDP, Kōmeitō and the New Conservative Party , his main rival candidate was Hokuto Yokoyama , who was supported by the DP , LP , SDP and Mimura's previous party, the Mushozoku no Kai. With a relatively high turnout of 52.5%, Mimura won the election by around 20,000 votes ahead of Yokoyama.

Mimura took office on July 1, 2003. A central controversial topic of his tenure is the planned commissioning of the Rokkasho reprocessing plant , where the headquarters of Nihon Gennen ( Japan Nuclear Fuel ) is also located. The commissioning of the plant, originally planned for 2005, for which the prefectural government receives substantial subsidies, had to be postponed several times, most recently in 2010 to October 2012. The movement of the opponents of Rokkasho, which includes traditional nuclear power opponents such as the Social Democratic Party as well as individual conservatives in addition to local citizen groups Politicians like Tarō Kōno , who are against closing the fuel cycle in Japan, and who belong to international groups, called for a referendum ( jūmin tōhyō , "citizens' vote") on the plant - in 2001, a referendum in Kariwa in Niigata Prefecture had the introduction of MOX there -Fuel elements that are later to be processed in Rokkasho prevented, and thus the entire nuclear energy strategy of the central government in question. In 2010, Mimura gave the central government permission to store radioactive waste in Rokkasho.

In 2007 Mimura was clearly re-elected with the support of the LDP and Kōmeitō against an independent nuclear power opponent and a communist opponent (38% turnout, 79% of the votes). During his second term in 2010, the city of Aomori was connected to the high-speed network through the commissioning of the extension of the Tōhoku Shinkansen that had been planned for decades , the construction of which the prefecture supported with 185 billion yen and for which it continues to repay 10 billion yen annually. In addition, it has to bear the losses incurred on the parallel Aoimori Tetsudō , a so-called 3rd sector railway, which belongs to over two-thirds of the prefecture, amounting to an estimated 1.6 billion yen annually.

In 2011 , 2015 and 2019 Mimura, supported by LDP and Kōmeitō, was confirmed in office with clear majorities.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mimura feeling heat after winning gubernatorial election in Aomori. In: The Japan Times . July 1, 2010, accessed December 12, 2010 .
  2. ↑ Rokkasho nuke plant delayed two more years. In: The Japan Times . September 11, 2010, accessed December 12, 2010 .
  3. ↑ Vote sought on Rokkasho test run. In: The Japan Times . March 5, 2006, accessed December 12, 2010 .
  4. ↑ Nagging doubts about nuclear energy. In: The Japan Times . June 1, 2001, accessed December 12, 2010 .
  5. ^ Storage of radioactive waste at Rokkasho OK'd. In: The Japan Times . August 20, 2010, accessed December 12, 2010 .
  6. ↑ Construction is started on Hokkaido bullet train after three-decade wait. In: The Japan Times . May 23, 2005, accessed December 12, 2010 .
  7. ^ Tokyo-Aomori bullet train debuts. Tohoku Shinkansen Line starts runs following 38-year effort to reach northern tip of Honshu. In: The Japan Times . December 5, 2010, accessed December 12, 2010 .
  8. ↑ Tohoku Shinkansen line no magic bullet. (No longer available online.) In: Daily Yomiuri . December 6, 2010, archived from the original on December 15, 2010 ; accessed on December 13, 2010 (English). 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.yomiuri.co.jp
  9. ↑ 開業 初 日 で も 午後 に は 空 席… 東北 新 幹線 、 今後 に 課題 . In: asahi.com . December 5, 2010; Archived from the original on December 6, 2010 ; Retrieved December 13, 2010 (Japanese).
  10. ↑ 地域 浮 揚 の 道 開 け る か 需要 発 掘 が 課題 東北 新 幹線 全線 開業 . In: Kahoku Shimbun . December 5, 2010; Archived from the original on December 6, 2010 ; Retrieved December 13, 2010 (Japanese).
personal data
SURNAME Mimura, Shingo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 三 村 申 吾 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Momoishi (Aomori) , Aomori Prefecture