Tomihisa Taue

Tomihisa Taue (田上 富久, Taue Tomihisa, born December 10, 1956), is a Japanese politician and the current mayor of Nagasaki, the capital city of Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, he first took office in 2007. He was a graduate from Kyushu University, and majored in jurisprudence.

Tomihisa Taue
田上 富久
Tomihisa Taue in July 2011
Mayor of Nagasaki
Assumed office
April 22, 2007
Preceded byIccho Itoh
Personal details
Born (1956-12-10) December 10, 1956
Gotō, Nagasaki, Japan
Alma materKyushu University

He is a career employee of the municipal government, which he first joined in 1980, eventually serving as head of its statistics department.[1]

He 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.[1]

In 2007, he 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.[2][3]

References
  1. "長崎市長選". NHK. 19 April 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
  2. "Japan defense chief quits over gaffe". USA Today. July 3, 2007. Retrieved August 26, 2010.
  3. Alford, Peter (July 4, 2007). "Minister quits over A-bomb gaffe". The Australian. Retrieved August 26, 2010.


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