Tomikazu Fukuda
Tomikazu Fukuda ( Japanese 福田 富 一 , Fukuda Tomikazu ; born May 21, 1953 in Imaichi (today: Nikkō ), Tochigi Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician and has been Governor of Tochigi Prefecture since 2004.
Life
Fukuda worked from 1972 after graduating from high school for the prefecture administration. In 1979 he graduated from the Engineering Faculty of Nihon University . In 1981 he finally left the prefecture administration and opened an office for architectural planning and the preparation of applications to the administration ( gyōsei shōshi ).
In 1983, Fukuda was elected to Utsunomiya City Council for the first of two terms . In 1990 he moved to the prefectural parliament in a by-election, for which he was re-elected in 1991 and 1995. Among other things, he was chairman of the committees for economic planning and trade promotion. From 1999 he was mayor of Utsunomiya. In his second term, he resigned in 2004 to run against Governor Akio Fukuda .
In the gubernatorial election on November 28, 2004 Tomikazu Fukuda (426,666,525 votes) with the support of LDP and Kōmeitō Akio Fukuda (302,776,427 votes) and a defeated CPJ candidate beat. In 2008 he was re-elected for a second term with around 84% of the vote against just one communist candidate.
Remarks
- ↑ For an explanation of the decimal places, see Elections in Japan # "Proportional fraction votes"
Web links
- Official Website (Japanese)
- Tochigi Prefecture: Governor's Page (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tochigi stumping starts. In: The Japan Times . November 12, 2004, accessed December 20, 2009 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fukuda, Tomikazu |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 福田 富 一 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Imaichi , Tochigi Prefecture |