Nobuto Hosaka

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Nobuto Hosaka

Member of the House of Representatives
Incumbent
Assumed office October 20, 1996
Personal details
Born	(1955-11-26) November 26, 1955 Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture
Political party	Social Democratic Party
Website	hosaka.gr.jp

Nobuto Hosaka (保坂展人 Hosaka Nobuto) is a Japanese politician and member of the House of Representatives for the Social Democratic Party. He is currently the mayor of Setagaya, Tokyo.

Nobuto Hosaka campaigned and won the mayor’s job on an anti-nuclear platform in April 2011, just over a month after the Fukushima nuclear disaster. According to the Wall Street Journal, Hosaka "is determined to turn this city ward of 840,000 people, the largest in Tokyo, into the front-runner of a movement that will put an end to Japan’s reliance on atomic power and accelerate the use of renewable energy".^[1]^[2]

Hosaka opposes the death penalty,^[3] and holds the position of secretary general of the Parliamentary League for the Abolition of the Death Penalty.^[4] He is also highly critical of continued Japanese moral panic against the Otaku subculture in the nation, with one notable case of criticism displayed against public and media related assumptions and gossip surrounding the incidents of November 17, 2004, when Kaoru Kobayashi murdered a 7-year-old girl.^[5]

In 2006 and 2007, Hosaka joined the gay parade in Tokyo. His boss Mizuho Fukushima also joined with him in 2007.^[6]

References

↑ George Nishiyama (February 6, 2012). "Anti-Nuclear Tokyo Mayor Challenges Big Utilities". Wall Street Journal.
↑ "Anti-nuclear plant candidate Hosaka wins Setagaya Ward mayoral race". The Mainichi Daily News. 2011-04-25. Retrieved 2011-05-09.
↑ "Death row: limbo of not knowing when". The Japan Times. 2007-02-27. Retrieved 2009-05-10.
↑ "Japan's way of judicial killing". The Japan Times. 2007-04-08. Retrieved 2009-05-10.
↑ "Otaku harassed as sex-crime fears mount". The Japan Times. 2005-02-06. Retrieved 2008-06-01.
↑ 東京プライドパレード、福島さんと歩きました - 保坂展人のどこどこ日記 His official blog(Japanese)

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Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 56470465 LCCN: nr91043541 GND: 172844703 NDL: 00139151

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Name	Hosaka, Nobuto
Alternative names
Short description	Japanese politician
Date of birth	1955-11-26
Place of birth	Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture
Date of death
Place of death

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