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Maebashi Mayor Ogawa

MAEBASHI, Japan, Oct. 23 Kyodo - Maebashi Mayor Akira Ogawa holds a press conference at the city hall in the capital city of Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Oct. 6, 2025, over an alleged affair with a senior city official reported by an online news site. (Kyodo)

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Maebashi Mayor Ogawa

MAEBASHI, Japan, Oct. 23 Kyodo - Maebashi Mayor Akira Ogawa is pictured at the city hall in Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Oct. 3, 2025, waiting for city assembly members, who are set to hand her a written request urging her to decide whether to continue serving in light of allegations of an affair with a senior city official reported by an online new site.(Kyodo)

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Maebashi Mayor Ogawa

MAEBASHI, Japan, Oct. 23 Kyodo - Maebashi Mayor Akira Ogawa meets the press after holding a meeting with all members of the city assembly of the capital city of Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Oct. 2, 2025, over an alleged affair with a senior city official reported by an online news site.(Kyodo)

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Maebashi Mayor Ogawa

Maebashi Mayor Akira Ogawa holds a meeting with all members of the city assembly of the capital city of Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Oct. 2, 2025, over an alleged affair with a senior city official reported by an online news site.

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Maebashi Mayor Ogawa

Maebashi city assembly members hand Maebashi Mayor Akira Ogawa (far L) a written request urging her to decide whether to continue serving after an allegation of an affair with a senior city official reported by an online news site, at the city hall in Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Oct. 3, 2025.

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Ex-Obuchi aide says funds discrepancies "clerical errors"

MAEBASHI, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 31, 2014 shows the Nakanojo municipal government offices in Gunma Prefecture, which was raided by prosecutors the same day in connection with discrepancies in political funds reports linked to former industry minister Yuko Obuchi. Kenichiro Orita, a former aide to Obuchi and a former mayor of Nakanojo, told prosecutors the discrepancies were caused by "clerical errors," sources with knowledge of the matter said.

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4 Kanto cities to support each other in disasters

MITO, Japan - Utsunomiya Mayor Eiichi Sato, Mito Mayor Yasushi Takahashi, Maebashi Mayor Ryu Yamamoto and Takasaki Mayor Kenji Tomioka (from L) pose for photos at the city hall in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Aug. 21, 2014, after signing an agreement on mutual support in times of disaster.

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South Sudanese Olympic athletes in Japan

Ryu Yamamoto (R), mayor of the eastern Japan city of Maebashi, and South Sudanese athletes pose for a photo at the city office in Gunma Prefecture on Feb. 24, 2021. The athletes have been training in Maebashi for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics since they came to Japan in November 2019 to escape difficult training conditions in the war-torn African country.

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4 Kanto cities to support each other in disasters

MITO, Japan - Utsunomiya Mayor Eiichi Sato, Mito Mayor Yasushi Takahashi, Maebashi Mayor Ryu Yamamoto and Takasaki Mayor Kenji Tomioka (from L) pose for photos at the city hall in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Aug. 21, 2014, after signing an agreement on mutual support in times of disaster. (Kyodo)

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South Sudanese Olympic athletes in Japan

Maebashi Mayor Ryu Yamamoto (3rd from R) and five South Sudanese athletes pose for a photo on March 26, 2020, with the country's national flag in the eastern Japan city -- where they have held a camp for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics as training is difficult in the civil war-torn South Sudan. The city in Gunma Prefecture said the same day it will continue to support the athletes, at least until July 2020, although the Tokyo Games have been postponed for about one year due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo