Issei Nishikawa

Issei Nishikawa (Japanese西川 一 诚, Issei Nishikawa, actually Nishikawa Kazumi, born January 2, 1945 in Asahi (now Echizen ), Fukui Prefecture) is a Japanese politician and since 2003 the governor of Fukui.

Nishikawa graduated in 1968 graduated from the Law Faculty of the University of Kyoto and was then an official in the Ministry of self-government, where he rose in the late 1980s in line positions. Most recently, he was from 1992 Head of the Planning Department ( kikaku - ka), from 1994 Deputy Head of the Secretariat of the Minister of State land. In 1995 he became vice governor of Fukui Prefecture under Yukio Kurita.

As Kurita withdrew in 2003 after four terms to Nishikawa applied for the Simplified regional elections in April to succeed, received approximately 53% of the vote and was the former diplomat bundo Takagi and the Communists Tomoichirō Yamakawa beat. 2007 and 2011 respectively, he was clearly confirmed as de facto Allparteienkandidat only against a communist rival candidates for four more years in office. As mentioned in the previous example, Kurita after the incident in the fast breeder reactor Monju is the nuclear safety, especially after an accident is a recurring theme in his political campaigns, because Fukui is the prefecture with the most nuclear reactors (15 ) in the country.