Word: ninagawa
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...mayor of small-town Sonobe. He first ran for the town council in 1950, at the age of 25, and was elected mayor eight years later. In 1967, he was elected to the Kyoto prefectural government, and immediately butted heads with the long-time governor, a communist, Torazo Ninagawa. Nonaka succeeded in getting Ninagawa voted out of office in 1978, and shortly thereafter the LDP rewarded him with a seat in the national parliament's lower house...
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