Tadatoshi Akiba
Tadatoshi Akiba (Japanese秋叶 忠 利, Akiba Tadatoshi; born November 3, 1942) is a Japanese politician and served from February 1999 to April 2011 Mayor of Hiroshima.
Life
Education and Teaching
Akiba studied at the University of Tokyo mathematics, received his Bachelor of Science in 1966, and in 1968 his Master of Science. He then continued his studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he at John Willard Milnor received his doctorate and his Ph. D. awarded in 1970. After Akiba exercised his teaching at various universities, including at Stony Brook University in New York, at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts from 1986 to 1997 at the Hiroshima Shudo University.
Political career and commitment to peace
In 1990, Akiba was first elected for the Social Democratic Party in the Japanese House of Commons, whose member he remained until 1999. He was elected mayor of Hiroshima in 1999. As mayor, he supported the Mayors for Peace and served during his tenure as president of the organization. February 2003 and April 2007 was his re-election as mayor. In the mayoral elections in April 2011 Akiba opted not to run again and no longer went to. Mayor Kazumi Matsui was new.
In 2010 Ramon Magsaysay him the prize was awarded for its efforts to nuclear disarmament. In 2007 the Nuclear-Free Future Award, based in Munich Franz Moll Foundation he had been awarded. He is also an honorary citizen of more than one dozen cities worldwide.
Akiba is married and has three sons.
Awards
- 2004: World Citizenship Award from the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
- 2005: Global Peace Award by the Global Nonviolence Conference
- 2005: International Peacemaker Award from the Louisville Interfaith Paths to Peace
- 2006: Sean MacBride Peace Prize of the International Peace Bureau
- 2006: Calgary Peace Prize of the University of Calgary
- 2007: Nuclear-Free Future Award of the Franz Moll Foundation
- 2010: Order of Rubén Darío of Nicaragua
- 2010: Ramon Magsaysay Award -
- 2012: Otto Hahn Peace Medal in Gold of the German Society for the United Nations ( UNA ), LV Berlin- Brandenburg - " for outstanding services to peace and international understanding, especially for his tireless efforts for global nuclear disarmament and related policy relaxation and reconciliation. " ( The ceremony was held on April 16, 2013 in Berlin ).