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Nagoya mayoral election

People listen to a speech by a candidate in Nagoya, central Japan, on Nov. 10, 2024, as seven people filed to become candidates for the city's Nov. 24 mayoral election. Takashi Kawamura lost his mayoral post as he ran in the previous month's general election, winning a House of Representatives seat.

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[Breaking News]General Election in Japan

NAGOYA, Japan, Oct. 27 Kyodo - Former Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura of the Conservative Party of Japan is showered with water in Nagoya, central Japan, on Oct. 27, 2024, after winning a House of Representatives seat in a general election. (Kyodo)

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General Election in Japan

Former Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura of the Conservative Party of Japan is showered with water in Nagoya, central Japan, on Oct. 27, 2024, after winning a House of Representatives seat in a general election.

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General Election in Japan

Former Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura of the Conservative Party of Japan is showered with water in Nagoya, central Japan, on Oct. 27, 2024, after winning a House of Representatives seat in a general election.

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World Cosplay Summit in Nagoya

Cosplayers pose with Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura (front, C) at a city facility in Nagoya on Aug. 2, 2023, ahead of the three-day World Cosplay Summit from Aug. 4 in the central Japan city.

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Sumo: Yokozuna Terunofuji

Sumo grand champion Terunofuji pretends to wrestle Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura (down) during a pre-tournament courtesy meeting in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on June 27, 2023.

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Nagoya planetarium recognized as world's biggest

NAGOYA, Japan - Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura holds the certificate during a press conference in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, on Dec. 28, 2011. The city of Nagoya announced that the planetarium at Nagoya City Science Museum has been recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's largest. After being renovated at a cost of 2.5 billion yen, the planetarium opened in March 2011 with a diameter of 35 meters. It breaks the previous record held by Ehime Prefectural Science Museum by 5 meters.

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Nagoya, L.A. mayors hold talks in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, United States - Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura (L) and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti hold talks at the latter's office in Los Angeles on Aug. 8, 2014. Kawamura invited Garcetti to the central Japanese city, which sealed a sister-city relationship with the U.S. city 55 years ago.

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Nagoya, Kagoshima officials open hawker center

NAGOYA, Japan - Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura (L) and Hiroshi Sasaki (2nd from L), deputy governor of Kagoshima Prefecture, attend a ceremony in Nagoya, central Japan, on July 1, 2014, to commemorate the opening of a hawker center comprising 20 food stalls offering specialty dishes and beverages from the southwestern prefecture.

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Legoland Park to be built in Nagoya

NAGOYA, Japan - Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura (L) and John Jakobsen, managing director of Merlin Entertainments overseeing the Legoland Parks, shake hands in Nagoya on June 30, 2014, after signing a deal to build a Legoland Park in the city.

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Kawamura secures 3rd term as Nagoya mayor

NAGOYA, Japan - Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura smiles at a press conference on the night of April 21, 2013, after an election victory securing his third four-year term. The incumbent mayor beat two challengers by large margins.

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Nagoya mayor re-elected

NAGOYA, Japan - Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura (C) celebrates in Nagoya, central Japan, on April 21, 2013, after media reports that he appeared certain to be reelected for another four-year term, beating two other candidates. At right is Aichi Gov. Hideaki Omura.

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Jetstar launches flights at Centrair

NAGOYA, Japan - Miyuki Suzuki (C), president of Jetstar Japan Co., cuts the ribbon with Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura (2nd from L) and Aichi Gov. Hideaki Omura (2nd from R) during a ceremony at Central Japan International Airport near Nagoya, known as Centrair, on March 31, 2013, the day the budget airline inaugurated flights between the airport and Sapporo as well as Fukuoka.

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AirAsia launches flights at Centrair

NAGOYA, Japan - Yoshinori Odagiri (2nd from L), president of AirAsia Japan Co., cuts the ribbon with Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura (far L) and Aichi Gov. Hideaki Omura (far R) during a ceremony at Central Japan International Airport near Nagoya, known as Centrair, on March 31, 2013, the day the budget airline started flights between the airport and Fukuoka.

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Nagoya mayor to join hands with Shiga governor

NAGOYA, Japan - Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura holds a press conference in the central Japanese city on Nov. 27, 2012. A small party co-led by Kawamura and veteran lawmaker Shizuka Kamei decided the same day to merge with a new party to be established by Shiga Gov. Yukiko Kada. Both parties are against nuclear energy.

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Small parties merger

TOKYO, Japan - Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura (L) and veteran lawmaker Shizuka Kamei jointly hold a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 22, 2012. The pair said they have decided to team up their small political parties ahead of the Dec. 16, 2012, general election.

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Small parties merger

TOKYO, Japan - Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura (L) and veteran lawmaker Shizuka Kamei jointly hold a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 22, 2012. The pair said they have decided to team up their small political parties ahead of the Dec. 16, 2012, general election.

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Nagoya mayor

NAGOYA, Japan - Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura attends the city assembly in Nagoya on Nov. 21, 2012. Kawamura said that his small opposition party has given up a plan to merge with another fledgling party led by former Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara and Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto.

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Japan's 1st Legoland to open in Nagoya in 2016

NAGOYA, Japan - Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura (C) and officials of Merlin Entertainments Group, the operator of Legoland theme parks, pose for photos at the Nagoya city hall on Oct. 26, 2012. Danish toy maker Lego Group has decided to open its first Legoland in Japan in the waterfront area of Nagoya in March 2016.

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Lego seeks to build theme park in Nagoya

NAGOYA, Japan - Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen (L front), chairman of Kirkbi A/S, talks with Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura (far R front) at Nagoya city hall on June 13, 2012. Officials involved with the operation of Legoland theme parks sought support from the mayor for their bid to open the company's first theme park in Japan in Nagoya in 2016.

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Kawamura defends Nanjing Massacre remarks

NAGOYA, Japan - Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura speaks at a press conference at the city hall on Feb. 27, 2012. Kawamura defended his controversial remarks on Feb. 20 about the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, saying, ''I believe it is not factual that as many as 300,000 unarmed civilians were massacred.''

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Group lodges protest over Nagoya mayor's remarks

NAGOYA, Japan - Kensaku Ishikawa (L), head of the Aichi prefectural chapter of the Japan-China Friendship Association, hands a letter of protest against Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura to an official at the Nagoya city government office on Feb. 24, 2012. Kawamura earlier in the week expressed doubt about the massacre of civilians by the Imperial Japanese Army in Nanjing in 1937.

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Nagoya Mayor Kawamura

TOKYO, Japan - Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura holds a press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Feb. 22, 2012. Kawamura said that no incident in which hundreds of thousands of people were slaughtered in Nanjing, China, in 1937 took place, defending his earlier remarks in which he doubted the Japanese military's massacre and rape of civilians there.

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Nagoya Mayor Kawamura

NAGOYA, Japan - Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura holds a press conference at the Nagoya city government office on Feb. 20, 2012. Earlier in the day, Kawamura told a visiting official from Nanjing, China, that he doubts a massacre of civilians by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers occurred in Nanjing in 1937 during the Sino-Japanese war, immediately drawing fire from China.

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Nanjing official in Nagoya

NAGOYA, Japan - Liu Zhiwei (L), a member of the Chinese Communist Party's Nanjing City Standing Committee, and Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura exchange gifts after their meeting in Nagoya, central Japan, on Feb. 20, 2012. Kawamura told Liu he doubts that a 1937 massacre of civilians by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers occurred in the Chinese city during the Sino-Japanese war.

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Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura

OSAKA, Japan - Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura answers questions from reporters in Osaka on the night of Feb. 3, 2012, after holdings talks with Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto. The two mayors discussed cooperation for the next election of the House of Representatives.

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Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto is pictured in Osaka on the night of Feb. 3, 2012, after holdings talks with Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura. The two mayors discussed cooperation for the next election of the House of Representatives.

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Nagoya mayor's party to contest next lower house election

NAGOYA, Japan - Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura makes a speech at the first convention of the political party he leads, Genzei Nippon (Tax Cut Japan), held in the central Japanese city on Aug. 28, 2011. The party decided at the convention to field candidates in the next House of Representatives election, which will be held within two years.

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Nagoya assembly election

NAGOYA, Japan - Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura puts up panels bearing the names of candidates from his political group who won in the Nagoya municipal assembly election on March 13, 2011, in the central Japan city. The group called Genzei Nippon (Tax Cut Japan), which advocates permanent tax cuts and halving assembly members' salaries, won the most seats in the election.

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DPJ lawmaker tries to leave party

TOKYO, Japan - Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker Yuko Sato heads to DPJ Secretary General Katsuya Okada's office in a Diet building in Tokyo on March 3, 2011. The first-term lower house member of the ruling party filed her decision with the party leadership to join a regional political group launched by Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura. Okada did not accept her resignation and asked her to stay in the party.

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DPJ lawmaker tries to leave party

TOKYO, Japan - Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker Yuko Sato is surrounded by reporters in a Diet building in Tokyo on March 3, 2011, after filing her decision with the party leadership to join a regional political group launched by Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura. DPJ Secretary General Katsuya Okada did not accept the first-term lower house member's resignation and asked her to stay in the party.

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Nagoya mayor's group aiming at Diet seats

NAGOYA, Japan - Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura speaks during an interview with Kyodo News in Nagoya, central Japan, on Feb. 17, 2011. Kawamura said he aims to field at least five candidates from his local political group in the next lower house election, in an effort to promote tax cuts at the national level. But he declined to say whether he would run in the election himself.

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Nagoya, Aichi elections

NAGOYA, Japan - Reelected Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura (L) and new Aichi Gov. Hideaki Omura celebrate their election victories in Nagoya, a central Japan city, on Feb. 6, 2011. Kawamura and his ally Omura defeated rival candidates backed by the ruling Democratic Party of Japan and the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party.

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Nagoya mayoral election

NAGOYA, Japan - Takashi Kawamura (C) celebrates in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, on Feb. 6, 2011, after media projections show he has won the Nagoya mayoral election. The election was triggered after Kawamura resigned to test public opinion following the city assembly's rejection of his proposal for a municipal income tax cut.

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Nagoya mayoral election campaign

NAGOYA, Japan - Former Nagoya mayor Takashi Kawamura, who is running in the city's mayoral election to regain office, addresses voters as campaigning kicks off in the central Japan city on Jan. 23, 2011. Kawamura, who resigned as mayor the previous month to test public opinion on his tax cut and other pledges that were rejected by the city assembly, is running on the ticket of the political organization that he leads, called ''Genzei Nippon,'' meaning ''tax cut Japan.'' The Feb. 6 poll is being seen as a bellwether for unified local elections across the country in the spring.

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Recall referendum on Nagoya assembly

NAGOYA, Japan - Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura (L) delivers a speech on a street of Nagoya on Jan. 17, 2011, urging residents to vote in a Feb. 6 referendum on whether to dissolve the city assembly, which is against Kawamura's proposals to cut taxes and salaries of assembly members.

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Nagoya mayor tenders resignation

TOKYO, Japan - Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura (L) tenders a letter of his resignation to Nagoya municipal assembly chief Toshiaki Yokoi (front) at Nagoya city hall on Dec. 20, 2010, after his tax cut bill was voted down by the assembly. Kawamura plans to run in an upcoming mayoral election.

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Referendum attempt for Nagoya assembly succeeds in reversal

NAGOYA, Japan - Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura appears relaxed during a news conference at the Nagoya city hall on Dec. 15, 2010 after an attempt by his supporters to initiate a recall referendum for the city assembly succeeded by reversing the previous decision that the group did not collect the required number of valid signatures from eligible voters for the referendum petition.

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Referendum attempt for Nagoya assembly succeeds in reversal

NAGOYA, Japan - Three pictures taken Dec. 15, 2010 show Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura at a news conference at the Nagoya city hall after an attempt by his supporters to initiate a recall referendum for the city assembly succeeded by reversing the previous decision that the group did not collect the required number of valid signatures from eligible voters for the referendum petition.

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Referendum attempt for Nagoya assembly succeeds in reversal

NAGOYA, Japan - Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura gestures during a news conference at the Nagoya city hall on Dec. 15, 2010 after an attempt by his supporters to initiate a recall referendum for the city assembly succeeded by reversing the previous decision that the group did not collect the required number of valid signatures from eligible voters for the referendum petition.

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Biodiversity pact

NAGOYA, Japan - Convention on Biological Diversity Executive Secretary Ahmed Djoghlaf (L) gives a badge to Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura at city hall in Nagoya on Aug. 26, 2010. Djoghlaf visited the central Japan city as a biodiversity conference will be held in October.

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Nagoya mayor sets up political group to make pitch for tax cuts

NAGOYA, Japan - Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura speaks about his newly established political group at a news conference in Nagoya on April 26, 2010. Kawamura said the group, named Genzei Nippon, literally meaning tax cuts in Japan, will aim to make the city's one-off 10-percent tax cut permanent by getting a majority in the local assembly.

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Nakanishi to become Hitachi president

TOKYO, Japan - Takashi Kawamura (L), chairman and president of Hitachi Ltd., and the company's Executive Vice President Hiroaki Nakanishi shake hands during a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 4, 2010. They announced that Nakanishi will take over the presidency from Kawamura on April 1.

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Nagoya to cut local income tax by 10%

NAGOYA, Japan - Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura salutes citizens in the city's assembly room on Dec. 22, 2009, after the assembly enacts an ordinance sponsored by the outspoken leader to cut local taxes by 10 percent in fiscal 2010. Nagoya and Handa, both in Aichi Prefecture, are the first cities to pass ordinances for cuts in local income tax in the next fiscal year starting April.

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DPJ-backed Kawamura wins Nagoya mayoral election

NAGOYA, Japan - Former opposition lawmaker Takashi Kawamura gets a soaking from his supporters as they congratulate him at his campaign office April 26 after he was assured of victory in the Nagoya mayoral election the same day. Kawamura, who stumped by bicycle, appears to have impressed voters with his enthusiasm to bring change to the major central Japan city.

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DPJ-backed Kawamura wins Nagoya mayoral election

NAGOYA, Japan - Former opposition lawmaker Takashi Kawamura gets a soaking from his supporters as they congratulate him at his campaign office April 26 after he was assured of victory in the Nagoya mayoral election the same day. Kawamura, who stumped by bicycle, appears to have impressed voters with his enthusiasm to bring change to the major central Japan city.

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DPJ-backed Kawamura wins Nagoya mayoral election

NAGOYA, Japan - Former opposition lawmaker Takashi Kawamura gets a soaking from his supporters as they congratulate him at his campaign office April 26 after he was assured of victory in the Nagoya mayoral election the same day. Kawamura, who stumped by bicycle, appears to have impressed voters with his enthusiasm to bring change to the major central Japan city.

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Hitachi to have new president

TOKYO, Japan - Takashi Kawamura, chairman of Hitachi Maxell Ltd., speaks a news conference in Tokyo on March 16 after being appointed as new president of Hitachi Ltd. Kawamura will replace current president Kazuo Furukawa on April 1.

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Hitachi to have new president

TOKYO, Japan - Takashi Kawamura, chairman of Hitachi Maxell Ltd., speaks a news conference in Tokyo on March 16 after being appointed as new president of Hitachi Ltd. Kawamura will replace current president Kazuo Furukawa on April 1.

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4 DPJ members fail to agree on single leadership candidate

TOKYO, Japan - Four Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) lawmakers -- Seiji Maehara (L), Yoshihiko Noda (2nd from L), Shigefumi Matsuzawa (2nd from R) and Takashi Kawamura -- meet in Tokyo on Aug. 20 in a bid to field a single challenger for the Sept. 23 party presidential election. As they failed to reach an agreement on a single challenger, they are likely to separately challenge DPJ leader Yukio Hatoyama in the election.