Hirokazu Nakaima

Hirokazu Nakaima (Japanese仲 井 眞 弘 多, Nakaima Hirokazu; born August 19, 1939 in Osaka, reported in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture) is a Japanese politician and since 2006 a non-party governor of Okinawa.

Life

Nakaima, a graduate of the University of Tokyo, was in his final 1961 official at MITI. From 1987 he worked several times for the current consolidated Okinawa Denryoku, from 1995 as president, from 2003 as chairman. Between 1990-1993 he was Deputy Governor of Okinawa Masahide Ōta under the Social Democrats and from 2001 chairman of the Commerce and Industry Chamber of Okinawa ( Okinawa shōkōkai gisho Rengokai ).

2006 Nakaima competed with the support of the then national government parties and the LDP Kōmeitō as well as the outgoing Governor Keiichi ynamines to the governorship. Important counter- candidate was the upper house MPs Keiko Itokazu of the Okinawa Shakai Taishūtō ( " socialist mass party Okinawa " ), which was also supported by the DPJ and SDP. Issues of the campaign were the economic development, the U.S. military presence that focuses on Okinawa in Japan, and the passing of several bases. Nakaima announced that they would continue the economic policies Inamines to advocate for the needs of SMEs and to make Okinawa a center of information technology. He rejects the restructuring plans of the U.S. military as the majority of the population from, but tried the theme of the bases in the background to keep and signaled - in contrast to Itokazu - a willingness to negotiate with the central government. With a relatively high turnout of 64 % was Nakaima ( 347 303 votes) Itokazu ( 309 985 votes) beat scarce; the candidate of the Ryukyu Dokuritsu -tō ( " Ryukyu Independence Party " ), Chosuke Yara, was repulsed with 6,220 votes in third place. Nakaimas term of office began on 10 December 2006.

As governor to Nakaima involved in public protests against the whitewashing of the mass suicide of Okinawa in Japanese textbooks and against committed by U.S. military personnel crimes. 2009 took over at the national level, the DPJ under Hatoyama Yukio, the government, which had initially found in the campaign against the plans of the U.S. military, but then the relocation of the Futenma base within Okinawa controversial as possibly designated inevitable. Nakaima again signaled a willingness to negotiate with the government in Tokyo, which is in talks with representatives of the U.S. government.

In the gubernatorial election on November 28, 2010, Nakaima competed with the support of the LDP and Kōmeitō to a second term. The ruling national Democratic Party backed, given the still unresolved problem of the installation base no candidate. Nakaimas main opposition candidate Yōichi Iha, formerly mayor of Ginowan, supported the candidacy of SDP, JCP and Taishūtō was strictly against the whereabouts of the Stützpukts in Okinawa, while Nakaima continued willingness to negotiate showed, however, during the election campaign spoke more clearly than before for the Move. Nakaima received 335 708 votes, Iha 297 082, a third candidate from the Kōfuku - jitsugen -tō, who pleaded for the planned restructuring within Okinawa, landed with 13,116 relegated to third place.