Tadatoshi Akiba

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Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba reading out his peace declaration in Hiroshima Peace Park on August 6, 2005.

Tadatoshi Akiba ( Japanese 秋葉 忠 利 , Akiba Tadatoshi ; born November 3, 1942 ) is a Japanese politician and was Mayor of Hiroshima from February 1999 to April 2011 .

Life

Training and teaching

Akiba studied at the University of Tokyo mathematics , received in 1966 his Bachelor of Science , and in 1968 his Master of Science . He then continued his studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where he received his doctorate and Ph. D. in 1970 under John Willard Milnor . Akiba then taught at various universities, including at Stony Brook University in New York , at Tufts University in Medford , Massachusetts and from 1986 to 1997 at Shūdō University in Hiroshima .

Political career and commitment to peace

In the 1990 general election , Akiba was in what was then constituency 1 (3 seats) of Hiroshima Prefecture, to which in particular the city of Hiroshima (excluding Aki district) belonged, with the highest percentage of votes in front of the Liberal Democrats Fumitake Kishida and Toshinobu Awaya for the Socialist Party of Japan for the first time elected the Japanese House of Commons , of which he remained until 1999. In 1999 he was elected mayor of Hiroshima. As mayor, he supported the Mayors for Peace and served as president of the organization during his tenure. In February 2003 and April 2007 he was re-elected mayor. In the mayoral elections in April 2011 , Akiba decided not to run again and did not run again. Kazumi Matsui became the new mayor .

In 2010 he was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Prize for his efforts to promote nuclear disarmament. In 2007 he had already received the Nuclear Free Future Award from the Munich- based Franz Moll Foundation. He is also an honorary citizen of more than a dozen cities worldwide.

Akiba is married and has three sons.

Awards

  • 2004: World Citizenship Award from the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
  • 2005: Global Peace Award from the Global Nonviolence Conference
  • 2005: International Peacemaker Award from the Louisville Interfaith Paths to Peace
  • 2006: Sean MacBride Peace Prize from the International Peace Bureau
  • 2006: Calgary Peace Prize from the University of Calgary
  • 2007: Nuclear-Free Future Award from the Franz Moll Foundation in the Solutions category
  • 2010: Order of Rubén Darío of the Republic of Nicaragua
  • 2010: Ramon Magsaysay Prize
  • 2012: Otto Hahn Peace Medal in Gold from the German Society for the United Nations (DGVN), LV Berlin-Brandenburg - "for outstanding services to peace and international understanding, in particular for his tireless commitment to worldwide nuclear disarmament and the associated politics of the Relaxation and Reconciliation " . (The award ceremony took place on April 16, 2013 in Berlin).

Publications

  • 1984: Computers with Faces
  • 1986: The Pearl and the Cherry Tree
  • 1988: The Spirit of Hiroshima, the Spirit of Humanity
  • 1989: Ways of Working Together with Americans
  • 2004: Conciliation instead of Retaliation
  • 2006: Hiroshima: A Thriving City

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ United Nations as peacekeeper and nation-builder (2005)
  3. ↑ Hiroshima Mayor Akiba will not run for reelection ( Memento of the original from October 19, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , January 6, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hiroshimapeacemedia.jp
  4. ↑ Seven individuals honored with Asia's premier prize  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation press release, 2010@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.rmaf.org.ph  
personal data
SURNAME Akiba, Tadatoshi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician and mayor of Hiroshima
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1942