New Hiroshima mayor Akiba starts tenure
Former Social Democratic Party (SDP) lower house member
Tadatoshi Akiba goes into the Hiroshima city hall to start his term
in office Feb. 23. Akiba, 56, was elected Hiroshima mayor Jan. 31,
running as an independent backed by some SDP city assembly members
and labor groups. In January, Akiba gave up his seat in the House of
Representatives he had held since 1990 to run in the mayoral
election.
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