Akio Maekawa

Akio Maekawa is one of those postwar-generation politicians who you feel carries the weight of an entire era on his shoulders. Born in 1945 in Kagoshima — the old Satsuma domain, land of stubborn, principled samurai types — he came up in a Japan that was literally rebuilding from rubble, and that shapes a person in ways that later generations just don't quite have. He graduated from the University of Tokyo, spent decades inside the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and only later ran Nerima as its mayor for three terms. I don't know the granular details of his record in office, but I find myself genuinely curious what he believed was worth fighting for, and whether he thought he got there.

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Akio Maekawa is a Japanese politician born on November 12, 1945, in Kagoshima Prefecture. After graduating from the University of Tokyo in 1970, he joined the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, later served as an executive officer at Tokyo Gas, and was elected mayor of Nerima, Tokyo, serving three terms.

Name (English)

Akio Maekawa

Name (Japanese)

前川燿男

Reading

まえかわ あきお

Born

November 12, 1945 (age 80)

Origin

Kagoshima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Politician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Rooster

University

University of Tokyo

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%89%8D%E5%B7%9D%E7%87%BF%E7%94%B7
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17221038

Tags

• From Kagoshima Prefecture
• Politician

Last updated

September 26, 2026

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