| Tomihisa Taue | |
|---|---|
| 田上 富久 | |
 Tomihisa Taue in November 2021 | |
| Mayor of Nagasaki | |
| In office April 22, 2007 – April 25, 2023 | |
| Preceded by | Iccho Itoh |
| Succeeded by | Shiro Suzuki |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1956-12-10) December 10, 1956 (age 68) Gotō, Nagasaki, Japan |
| Alma mater | Kyushu University |
Tomihisa Taue (田上 富久, Taue Tomihisa, born December 10, 1956), is a Japanese politician and the mayor of Nagasaki, the capital city of Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan from 2007 to 2023.
Early life
Taue is a graduate of Kyushu University, and majored in jurisprudence.
He began his career as a civil servant at the municipal government, which he first joined in 1980, eventually serving as a department manager of the statistics department.
Political career
Taue was elected mayor of Nagasaki in a special election in 2007 following the assassination of Iccho Itoh in the midst of the 2007 unified local elections. He was re-elected in the April 2011 elections and ran unopposed in the April 2015 elections, the first uncontested mayoral election in Nagasaki history.
In 2007, Taue criticized Fumio Kyuma, then the Minister of Defense, as the mayor of Nagasaki for his remark on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
He was defeated in the 2023 election and succeeded by Shiro Suzuki.
References
- ^ "長崎市長選". NHK. 19 April 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
- "Japan defense chief quits over gaffe". USA Today. July 3, 2007. Retrieved August 26, 2010.
- Alford, Peter (July 4, 2007). "Minister quits over A-bomb gaffe". The Australian. Retrieved August 26, 2010.
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