About Takashi Kawamura (politician)
Takashi Kawamura is a Japanese politician who has served as a member of the House of Representatives representing Aichi 1st since October 2024, a position he had previously held from 1993 to 2009. Prior to this, he served as the 35th mayor of Nagoya from 2009 to 2024. Kawamura was the Deputy Leader of the far-right Conservative Party of Japan, until a falling out with the leader, Naoki Hyakuta. He is also the founder and leader of the Nagoya-based regional party Genzei Nippon. Kawamura was elected for the first time in 1993 as a member of Morihiro Hosokawa's Japan New Party after an unsuccessful run in 1990. On February 6, 2011 he won a landslide re-election victory, gaining three times more votes than his DPJ rival. The Olympic Medal incident is not the first time that Mayor Kawamura has displayed an urge to bite into a golden emblem in the presence of news media and photographers.
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