Naoki Inose

Naoki Inose (Japanese猪 瀬 直树, Inose Naoki; born November 20, 1946 in Iiyama, Nagano Prefecture) is a Japanese journalist and politician, and since 2012 the Governor of Tokyo East Japan prefecture.

Inose graduated from the Faculty of Arts of the Shinshu University in Matsumoto. As a student he came into the student movement of the 1960s with the " New Left " ( shin- sayoku ) in contact and led in 1969 the local section of the Zenkyōtō (全 共 闘), which was a major player in the student protests of the late 1960s - after the organization sometimes like as Zenkyōtō Riot generation Zenkyōtō referred to. After graduating, he moved to the capital, married, worked for a publishing company and completed the Graduate School of Meiji University. In the 1980s he began to write on his debut in 1983 followed by numerous publications, especially to modern society and recent history of Japan.

In direct contact with the policies he came in 2001 when he became a member of an advisory body of the Cabinet Koizumi on administrative reform, in 2002 a committee to promote the privatization of four public road operators ( Doro kankei yon- Kodan ), where he served until 2005. He also taught as a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo, from 2006 as associate professor at the Tōkyō Daigaku Kōgyō. In 2007 he was member of a commission that advises the Prime Minister to decentralization reforms.

Tokyo Governor Shintaro In June 2007, Ishihara called him shortly after his re-election in April as one of four vice- governors of Tokyo. As Ishihara resigned in October 2012, Inose became acting governor until he declared his candidacy in the upcoming election in December 2012. His candidacy was supported by Ishihara and the center-right parties; against the left- assisted Kenji Utsunomiya and seven other competitors to Inose sat through a two-thirds majority of votes and an absolute record of over 4.3 million votes. He resigned the office immediately.

In December 2013 Inose announced in donations scandal surrounding the hospital group Tokushūkai of the Shūgiin deputies Takeshi Tokuda family his resignation.