was the mayor of

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in Japan until April, 2011, when he was succeeded by

Nobuhiro Tanabe is a Japanese politician. He entered politics in 1991, and served as a member of the City Council for Shizuoka from 1995 to 2003. He is serving his second term as mayor of Shizuoka City. References 1961 births Living peo ...

. A graduate of the University of Tokyo, he was first elected mayor in 1998 after serving in the assembly of

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for three terms. He served as the first mayor of Shizuoka City after Shizuoka's merger with Shimizu in 2003. In 1971, after college, he went to work at the Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank (now

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) where he stayed until 1979. In 1979 he was elected to the Shizuoka Prefectural Assembly.

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* 1947 births Living people People from Gifu Prefecture University of Tokyo alumni Mayors of places in Shizuoka Prefecture Shizuoka (city) {{Japan-mayor-stub