Takashi Hiraoka

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In this Japanese name, the family name is Hiraoka.

Takashi Hiraoka (平岡敬, Hiraoka Takashi^?, born December 21, 1927) was the mayor of Hiroshima from 1991 to 1999.

In August 1945 he was away from the city. During the 1960s worked as a journalist, writing mostly about Korean hibakusha, thus demanding from the Japanese government grant them the right to medical care in Japan.

As mayor, Hiraoka worked to further cooperation between Hiroshima and cities in South Korea, thus leading to the Hiroshima-Daegu sister city agreement in 1997.

Following retirement in 1999, he remained active for peace, and in December 2007 participated in a meeting with the mayor of Waitakere to express protest over the whaling policy of the Japanese government. [1]