{"id":80651,"date":"2015-04-10T15:19:18","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T06:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&p=60469"},"modified":"2016-04-01T02:46:29","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T17:46:29","slug":"next-gubernatorial-race-pits-ogawa-against-newcomer-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/next-gubernatorial-race-pits-ogawa-against-newcomer-lawyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Next Gubernatorial Race Pits Ogawa Against Newcomer Lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"

The next gubernatorial race in Fukuoka Prefecture is slated for Apr. 12. Nishinippon Shimbun interviewed the two candidates, incumbent Hiroshi Ogawa (age 65) and challenger Tomikazu Goto (age 45).<\/p>\n

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Hiroshi Ogawa: Over the past four years, Ogawa has \u201cmade many inspection tours and joined many events\u201d in an effort to hear what citizens have to say \u201cat the grassroots level.\u201d After the torrential rains that pounded the Yame region in July 2012, he worked quickly to undertake effort aimed at a speedy recovery. He was also very pleased when Fukuoka won rights to host some of games for the 2019 Rugby world Cup games. \u201cI want to be of service to everyone [in the Prefecture],\u201d stated Ogawa.<\/p>\n

Tomikazu Goto: Goto, a lawyer running as in independent, unveiled his slogan: \u201cCreating a happy future for the children.\u201d Says Goto: \u201cChildren eventually grow up and have their own children, then they grow old. The future of our children is the key to happiness for every generation.\u201d Goto\u2019s has worked cases aimed at suspending the restarting of the Genkai Nuclear Power Plant and opening the floodgates on the national government-owned Isahaya Bay dike. He decided to run for governor after meeting with many local residents on these cases and learned how distrustful they were of the national government and politicians. He hopes to raise a voice against national government policies as the \u201crepresentative of Fukuoka\u2019s 5.1 million people\u201d Source: Nishinippon Shimbun 3\/30<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NEXT GUBERNATORIAL RACE PITS OGAWA AGAINST NEWCOMER LAWYER ::: The next gubernatorial race in Fukuoka Prefecture is slated for Apr. 12. Nishinippon Shimbun interviewed the two candidates, incumbent Hiroshi Ogawa (age 65) and challenger Tomikazu Goto (age 45)…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":60488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-80651","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-category-politics","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/80651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}