Naoki Inose
| Naoki Inose | |
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| 猪瀬 直樹 | |
Inose with U.S. Under Secretary of State Tara Sonenshine at Yoyogi Park, Nov. 2012
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| Governor of Tokyo | |
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In office 18 December 2012 – 24 December 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Shintarō Ishihara |
| Succeeded by | Yōichi Masuzoe |
| Vice Governor of Tokyo | |
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In office June 2007 – December 2012 |
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| Governor | Shintaro Ishihara |
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20 November 1946 Iiyama, Nagano, Japan |
| Political party | Independent (supported by LDP, NKP, JRP) |
| Occupation | Biographer, journalist |
Naoki Inose (猪瀬 直樹 Inose Naoki?, born 20 November 1946) is a Japanese journalist, historian, social critic and biographer of literary figures such as Yukio Mishima and Osamu Dazai. He served as Vice Governor of Tokyo from June 2007 until becoming Acting Governor on 1 November 2012 following the resignation of Shintaro Ishihara. He was elected Governor in a historical landslide victory in December 2012, but announced his resignation on December 19, 2013, following a political funds-related scandal; his resignation was approved and became effective December 24, 2013.
Inose was born in Nagano Prefecture; his father died of angina pectoris when Inose was three years old. He attended elementary and junior high schools affiliated with Shinshu University, and ultimately enrolled at Shinshu in 1966. He graduated from Shinshu University in 1970 and moved to Tokyo, where he was married later in the year. He enrolled in graduate school for political science at Meiji University in 1972, and had two children, born in 1974 and 1978.
Inose's 1983 book Shōwa 16-nen Natsu no Haisen (昭和16年夏の敗戦?, literally, "Defeated in War in the Summer of 1941") describes the findings of the Total War Research Institute (総力戦研究所 Sōryokusen Kenkyūjo?). During the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, the Institute would be accused of being part of Japan's militaristic machine, but Inose asserts that it was little more than a think-tank, of which the purpose was to examine dispassionately the consequences of a total war. Its conclusion was that "there [would] be no way for Japan to win the war because of its clear material inferiority. The war [would] be drawn out. The Soviet Union [would] butt in, and Japan [would] be defeated. Therefore, going to war with the United States must absolutely be avoided."
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