Yoshihiro Murai

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Yoshihiro Murai ( Japanese 村井 嘉浩 , Murai Yoshihiro ; born August 20, 1960 in Toyonaka , Osaka Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician and has been the governor of Miyagi Prefecture since 2005 .

Murai is a former member of the Ground Self-Defense Forces . After graduating from the Bōei Daigakkō ("National Defense Academy") in 1984 , he became a helicopter pilot with the "Army Aviation Group Northeast " ( Tōhoku-hōmen kōkūtai ). In 1992 he left the Self-Defense Forces with the rank of captain ( 1 等 陸 尉 , ittō rikui ) and then attended the Matsushita Seikei Juku ( 松下 政 経 塾 , English Matsushita Institute of Government and Management ).

In 1995 Murai was elected to the Miyagi prefectural parliament for the first time in the Miyagino constituency (four seats) for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and was then confirmed in office in 1999 and 2003. From 2002 to 2005 he was also general secretary of the LDP Miyagi. In 2005 he resigned his parliamentary mandate and his party membership in order to run as an independent in the gubernatorial election for the successor of Shirō Asano . He was supported in the election campaign by the LDP.

In the election on October 23, 2005, Murai received around 363 thousand votes and was thus over 50 thousand votes ahead of Masuyuki Maeba and well ahead of the CPY candidate Hidetaka Deura. One of the campaign topics was a Miyagi Police Fund to be used to pay informants, but was banned by Governor Asano after allegations of abuse. On his first day in office, Murai reactivated the fund under the supervision of the Miyagi Accounting Commission. Other tasks in his first term as governor included reforming the prefectural finances, the planned settlement of several large automotive companies, disaster relief after the Iwate Miyagi Nairiku earthquake in 2008 and the safety of the Tōhoku Denryoku's Onagawa nuclear power plant after the cover-up of an incident in 2007 became public in 1998.

In the gubernatorial election on October 25, 2009, Murai was re-elected against the Democratic Party-backed Yasuo Endo, also in 2013 and 2017.

After the great earthquake on March 11th and the subsequent tsunami, which caused devastating damage to the coast, he stood out in the area of ​​planning the reconstruction with the proposal to set up "special fishing zones for reconstruction" ( 水産業 復興 特区 , Suisan-gyō fukkō tokku ), which are controversial.

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  1. ↑ 宮城 県> 宮城 県 知事 選 挙 . (No longer available online.) In: ザ ・ 選 挙 . JANJAN (Japan Alternative News for Justices and New Cultures) on February 20, 2007, archived from the original on April 23, 2009 ; Retrieved June 9, 2009 (Japanese). 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.senkyo.janjan.jp
  2. ^ New Miyagi governor lifts ban on police funds. In: The Japan Times . November 22, 2005, accessed June 9, 2009 .
  3. ↑ '98 reactor emergency in Miyagi covered up. In: The Japan Times. March 13, 2007, accessed June 9, 2009 .
  4. ↑ Jun Hongo: Miyagi governor has big recovery plans, tells Diet to hunker down. In: The Japan Times. June 10, 2011, accessed September 8, 2011 .
  5. ^ Rob Gilhooly: Fishermen take matters into own hands. In: The Japan Times. October 1106, accessed September 8, 2011 .
  6. ↑ Johannes Harumi Wilhelm: Some preliminary thoughts on the Special Zones for Disaster Recovery in Fisheries (presentation at the "Disaster Fieldwork Workshop" held in Yokohama, Aug. 19, 2011). (PDF; 5.2 MB) Retrieved September 8, 2011 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Murai, Yoshihiro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 村井 嘉浩 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH 20th August 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Toyonaka , Osaka Prefecture , Japan