Tomihisa Taue

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.

Tomihisa Taue
田上 富久
Tomihisa Taue in November 2021
Mayor of Nagasaki
In office
April 22, 2007 – April 25, 2023
Preceded byIccho Itoh
Succeeded byShiro Suzuki
Personal details
Born (1956-12-10) December 10, 1956
Gotō, Nagasaki, Japan
Alma materKyushu University

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.[1]

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.[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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