Career
He served as a member of the city assembly and later the prefectural assembly before he was elected as the mayor. As the mayor of the city where an atomic bomb was dropped just two weeks before his birth, he made a speech at the International Court of Justice in the Hague on November 7, 1995 and stressed that the use of nuclear weapons is a violation of international law.
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