Moriyuki Kato

Moriyuki Kato (Japanese加 戸 守 行, Kato Moriyuki; born September 18, 1934 in Dairen, Kantō region, Manchukuo / Empire of Japan ) is a Japanese politician and served from 1999 to December 2010 Governor of Ehime Prefecture.

Kato graduated in 1957 from his law studies at the University of Tokyo and officials was then the Ministry of Culture, where he worked, among others, several years in the Department of Culture and in 1988 as Head of the Minister Secretariat ( daijin - Kambo -chō ). From 1989, he first headed the kōritsu Gakko Kyōsai kumiai, the "Welfare Association of Teachers in public schools " (English Japan Mutual Aid Association of Public Teachers ), then the Nihon geijutsu bunka Shinkokai, the "Japanese Society for the Promotion of Art and Culture" (English Japan Arts Council ), a self -regulatory body of the Ministry of Culture, then from 1995 the Nihon ongaku chosakuken Kyokai the " Japanese Society for music copyrights " (English Japanese society for rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers ).

1999 Kato ran against incumbent Sadayuki Iga as governor of Ehime. Kato received over 420,000 votes and was thus able to Iga (just under 240,000) and three other candidates beat clear. 2003 and 2007, he was clearly confirmed against only one or two opposition candidates in office.

In Kato's tenure, among other things, 2001, the collision of the run by the prefectural fisheries training vessel Ehime with a nuclear-powered submarine of the U.S. Navy, the USS Greeneville and the authorization and use ( as of 2010 ) of - of parts of the population rejected - MOX fuel in nuclear power plants Ikata; for the cooperation received the prefectural government 6 billion yen subsidies.

In May 2010, Kato announced his intention to resign before the end of his third term in 2011, in September 2010, he submitted his resignation at the Prefecture Parliament. On 28 November 2010, the former mayor of Matsuyama, Tokihiro Nakamura, elected to Kato's successor.