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Nagoya is the largest city in the Chūbu region, the fourth-most populous city and third most populous urban area in Japan, with a population of 2.3million in 2020. Located on the Pacific coast in central Honshu, it is the capital and the most po ...

City in , Japan. A native of , also in Aichi Prefecture, and graduate of (Aichi Gakugei Daigaku). He was first elected in April 1997.

Biography

Matsubara served as a primary and secondary school teacher in his early career. His subject was the National Language of Japan,

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. He was later a school principal and also Superintendent of Schools for the City of

. He was inaugurated as Mayor of Nagoya in April 1997. In 2005 he was elected to his third term as Mayor. In

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he has welcomed recommendations from all factions and parties barring only the JCP (Japanese Communist Party) representative. He has been known to show great enthusiasm for large building projects, but has been weak on social welfare issues. On October 23, 2008, Mayor Matsubara announced that he would not be running for re-election in the Spring of 2009 due to health concerns over his advanced age (71). The ''Asahi Shimbun'' reports, however, that fall-out from his recent " slush fund" scandal may also have contributed to his decision to stand down after more than a decade in office. On April 1, 2015, he was appointed the president of

Tokai Gakuen University , abbreviated as TGU, is a Japanese private university located in Miyoshi, Aichi within the Chubu of Japan. It has a campus in Tempaku-ku, Nagoya.The predecessor of the school was founded in 1888 and was chartered as a university in 1995. The ...

( Miyoshi,

Aichi is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshū. Aichi Prefecture has a population of 7,552,873 () and a geographic area of with a population density of . Aichi Prefecture borders Mie Prefecture to the west, Gifu Prefecture ...

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