Daisaku Kadokawa

Daisaku Kadokawa (門川 大作, Kadokawa Daisaku) is a Japanese politician and the current mayor of Kyoto, the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture.[1][2]

Daisaku Kadokawa
門川 大作
26th Mayor of Kyoto
Assumed office
26 February 2008
Preceded byYorikane Masumoto
Personal details
Born (1950-11-23) November 23, 1950
Kyoto, Japan
Political partyIndependent
Children4
Alma materRitsumeikan University

Overview

Born in Nakagyo Ward, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture, he graduated from Kyoto Municipal Horikawa High School with a timed general course, then joined the Kyoto City Board of Education, and then went on to Ritsumeikan University Faculty of Law No. 2 to obtain a degree. He resigned as Kyoto City Minister of Education in 2007, and was re-elected to the 2008 Kyoto mayoral election by the Liberal Democratic Party, the Komeito Party, and the Democratic Party of Kyoto Prefectural Division, as well as the Social Democratic Party of Kyoto.

Person


  • Kadokawa likes the kimono and always attends city council meetings and other events wearing one. It is customary for the mayor of Kyoto to wear traditional Japanese clothes.
  • In June 2019, he sent Kim Kardashian of the United States a letter of protest attempt to trademark the name "KIMONO" for her new underwear line. In the letter he said "It is a common asset of all people who love the culture of the Japanese and the Japanese and the world," and I believe that it should not be monopolized privately.[3]"

Controversy

On the evening of July 18, 2019, when Kadkawa attended a party for the 25th House of Councillors who usually elect a candidate for the Kyoto Prefecture constituency, he mentioned the Kyoto Animation arson case, saying that "3 minutes and 10 minutes are important when fighting fires, and the election can be reversed in the last two days", which was criticized as inappropriate remarks Kadokawa himself apologized for speaking on the 19th.[4]

References
  1. Mayor of Kyoto has big plans for tourism Archived 2015-03-20 at the Wayback Machine, Japan Times, September 14, 2014.
  2. Kyoto City Web Archived 2014-08-29 at the Wayback Machine, Kyoto City Website, July 28, 2015.
  3. Kim Kardashian's Kimono trademark registration, kyoto city mayor and minister of economy, trade and industry 'stop' - Buzz Feed News(12/22/2021)
  4. ["京アニ火災「火事は１０分が大事、選挙は最後で逆転」と京都市長 : 京都新聞". kyoto-np.jp. Archived from the original on 2019-07-19. Retrieved 2019-07-19.]


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