Takeshi Onaga

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Takeshi Onaga (2016)

Takeshi Onaga ( Japanese 翁 長 雄 志 , Onaga Takeshi ; born October 2, 1950 in Miwashi (today: Naha ), Okinawa Prefecture ; † August 8, 2018 in Urasoe ) was a Japanese politician ( LDP → independent) and governor from 2014 to 2018 Okinawa Prefecture. He was previously a member of the Okinawa Prefectural Parliament from 1992 to 1996 and mayor of Naha from 2000 to 2014.

Life

Onaga was born on October 2, 1950 in what is now Naha and studied until 1975 at the law faculty of Hōsei University . In 1985 he was elected as a candidate for the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP for short ) in the city parliament of Naha and was able to defend his seat in the 1989 election. In 1992 and 1996 he ran successfully for the prefectural parliament of Okinawa and remained a member of parliament until 2000. In 2000, he was elected mayor of Naha to succeed Kōsei Oyadomari and remained in that position until October 2014, when he stepped down to run for governor of Okinawa.

In June 2014 he was recommended by some LDP politicians who later left the LDP that he should run in the upcoming gubernatorial elections in Okinawa  in October of that year. In August, the opposition parties KPJ , SDP , Seikatsu no Tō and Shadaitō announced that they would support the US skeptical Onaga in the event of a candidacy because, unlike the strongly pro-American Japanese government, he was against a planned relocation of the United States Navy -Corps base " Marine Corps Air Station Futenma " ( 普天 間 飛行 場 Futenma Hikōjō , German about "Airfield Futenma") from Ginowan to Nago . In the long term, he campaigned for the base to be shut down. Onaga ran after he left the LDP and sat down with 360,820 votes against the incumbent  Governor Hirokazu Nakaima (261,076 votes), who was supported by the LDP and Kōmeitō , the former Minister of State for Disaster Management Mikio Shimoji (69,447 votes) and the former House of Lords - MPs of the DPJ Shōkichi Kina (7,821 votes).

In August 2015, construction work on the controversial new US base was interrupted due to strong resistance from the people of Okinawa and Onaga. In particular, the fact that Onaga's predecessor, Nakaima, had approved a government motion in December 2013 to allow landfill work to build a new airfield in the area of ​​Okinawa Prefecture made it much more difficult to prevent construction. Construction work resumed in October 2015. There were subsequently several charges by both sides, with the Supreme Court ruling in December 2016 that Onaga had no legal authority to ban the construction.

In April 2018, an examination diagnosed stage 2 pancreatic cancer, whereupon Onaga underwent an operation and continued to serve as governor from May. At the end of July of that year, he announced that he would once again take all possible measures against the construction work for the relocation and, in particular, to reverse the agreement with the government concluded in 2013 by his predecessor. On August 8, 2018, he died in the " Urasoe General Hospital " ( 浦 添 総 合 病院 Urasoe Sōgō Byōin ) at the age of 67 as a result of the disease. The office of governor was provisionally taken over by the previous Vice-Governor Kiichirō Jahana ( 謝 花 喜 一郎 , Jahana Kiichirō ).

Web links

Commons : Takeshi Onaga  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ jiji.com - 知事 選出 馬 で 辞職 願 ＝ 翁 長 那覇 市長 ( Memento from October 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ 野 党 、 翁長氏 に 要 請 知事 選出 馬 「建 白書堅 持 を」 . In: Ryūkyū Shimpō . August 12, 2014. Retrieved August 8, 2018 (Japanese).
  3. ↑ 【速 報】 新知 事 に 翁長氏 当選 辺 野 古 反 対 に 支持 、 移 設計 画 影響 も . In: Ryūkyū Shimpō . November 16, 2014. Retrieved August 8, 2018 (Japanese).
  4. ^ US military helicopter crashes off Okinawa in Japan. In: BBC News . August 12, 2015. Retrieved August 8, 2018 (Japanese).
  5. ↑ The Supreme Court of Japan supports the plan to rebuild the US military base in Okinawa. In: Voice of Vietnam . December 21, 2016, accessed August 8, 2018 .
  6. ^ Okinawa's governor moves to retract landfill work approval needed to move Futenma base. In: The Japan Times . July 27, 2018, accessed August 8, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga dies: source. In: The Japan Times . August 8, 2018, accessed August 8, 2018 .
  8. ↑ 沖 縄 副 知事 会見 詳 報 翁長雄 志 知事 の 復 帰 の め ど 「今 の 時点 で 明確 な な 時期 を 言 え な い」 . In: Sankei Shimbun . August 8, 2018. Retrieved August 8, 2018 (Japanese).
personal data
SURNAME Onaga, Takeshi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 翁長雄 志 (Japanese, Kanji); お な が た け し (Japanese, Hiragana)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Miwashi
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 2018
Place of death Urasoe