Takeki Manabe

Takeki Manabe ( Japanese 真 鍋 武 紀 , Manabe Takeki ; born April 3, 1940 in Shimotakaoka , Kita County (today: Miki ), Kagawa Prefecture ) is a non-party Japanese politician and governor of Kagawa from 1998 to 2010.

Manabe, a graduate of Tokyo University , became a senior official in the Department of Agriculture and Forestry in his senior year 1963 . In the 1990s he also worked for the Environmental Protection Agency and the Kokusai Kyōryoku Jigyōdan , a quasi-state body that coordinates Japanese development aid .

In 1998, Manabe ran for gubernatorial elections in his home prefecture of Kagawa to succeed Jōichi Hirai , who did not run after twelve years in office. Manabe clearly prevailed against three other independent candidates with a low turnout of 39.3%. In his first term of office he reached an agreement on the disposal of industrial waste that had been illegally disposed of on Teshima in Tonoshō . In 2002 and 2006 he was confidently confirmed in office for four more years, most recently with the support of LDP and Kōmeitō .

In 2009 Manabe announced his withdrawal from office: In the gubernatorial election in August 2010, Keizō Hamada was elected as his successor.

Web links

• Kagawa Prefecture: Governor's Office (Japanese)
• Zenkoku chiji-kai: short biography (Japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ JANJAN, The Senkyo: Result of the Kagawa gubernatorial election in 1998 ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2010 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.