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Futaba mayor dissolves assembly, fukushima minpo.

Posted by ⋅ December 27, 2013
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Katsutaka Idogawa, mayor of the town of Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, said on Dec. 26 that he has dissolved the town assembly after it passed a no-confidence motion against him.

Idogawa notified assembly chairman Seiichi Sasaki of the dissolution. Under the public offices election law, an election will be held within 40 days of the day following the notification. The town election board is seeking to arrange voting on Feb. 3.

The assembly unanimously passed a no-confidence motion against Idogawa on Dec. 20, citing his absence from a meeting in November about a plan to set up temporary storage facilities for soil contaminated with radioactive substances released from the disaster-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

The assembly passed the no-confidence motion in a session held in the city of Kazo, Saitama Prefecture, to which the Futaba municipal government relocated its office following the outbreak of the nuclear disaster in March 2011.

Idogawa was absent from the Nov. 28 meeting of prefectural government officials and mayors of municipalities in Futaba county held to discuss the central government’s proposal to set up temporary storage facilities for radiation-contaminated soil.

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  1. Much of what we witness here could be seen in the wake of disaster and warfare around the world, but when following Futaba’s mayor, Katsutaka Idogawa, as he tries to reconcile past and future, Funahashi finds a useful angle on this particular tragedy. Idogawa has long belonged to a group of small-town mayors advocating for nuclear plants; his town received huge tax revenue from the plant when it was built, using the money for public projects they could never have afforded. But even before Fukushima destroyed much of the town, the money it brought had run out. Futaba was near bankruptcy.
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    arclight2011part2's avatar Comment by arclight2011part2 | December 27, 2013 | Reply


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