Yūji Kuroiwa
Yūji Kuroiwa ( Japanese 黒 岩 祐 治 , Kuroiwa Yūji ; born September 26, 1954 in Kobe , Hyōgo Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician, former journalist and since 2011 Governor of Kanagawa Prefecture .
Kuroiwa worked after graduating in 1980 at Waseda University for Fuji Television , where he presented the news program FNN Supertime in the late 1980s, and then from 1992 the Sunday political talk show Hōdō 2001. In 1997 he became a correspondent in Washington, DC, before he took over the management of Hōdō again in 2001 from 1999 until it was hired in 2008. In 2009 he left Fuji TV and became a professor at the "International University of Medicine and Welfare" ( Kokusai Iryō Fukushi Daigaku ) in Tochigi Prefecture.
When the governor of Kanagawa, Shigefumi Matsuzawa , announced in March 2011 that he would not run again in the gubernatorial election in April , Kuroiwa left the university and declared his candidacy, which was supported by the three largest parties LDP , DP and Kōmeitō . He won with around 55% of the vote against three candidates and succeeded Matsuzawa in April 2011.
In the 2015 gubernatorial election Kuroiwa was re-elected for a second term by a three-quarters majority against the CPY- backed Hajime Okamoto.
Web links
- Official Website (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun : Results of the 2015 Unified Elections, Kanagawa Gubernatorial Election
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kuroiwa, Yūji |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 黒 岩 祐 治 |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 26, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kobe , Hyogo Prefecture |