Tokyo Gubernatorial Election 2020: Candidate Profile for Hisao Naito

This is the 19th post introducing candidates in the Tokyo governor race.

Check the other candidate profiles using these links: Koike; Utsunomiya; Ono; Yamamoto; Sakurai; Komiyama; Takemoto; Nishimoto; Sekiguchi; Oshikoshi; Horiemon New Party; Goto; Sawa; Ichikawa; Ishii; Nagasawa; Ushio; Hiratsuka.

The goal of these profiles is to get readers to know all the candidates on one website. I want to help people find information with minimal effort.

This post will focus on Hisao Naito and his policies.

Bio

2020 Policies

1. A city that values life

• Set up a 24-hour hotline for trouble/complaints/consultation
• Establish a public temporary employment organization to help unemployed + the socially isolated (hikikomori) find jobs
• Guarantee minimum wage + food through a system similar to basic income

2. An environmentally friendly/advanced city

• Increase the number of hydrogen stations + promote fuel-cell vehicles
• Reduce plastic waste

3. A city prepared for disasters 

• Provide lifeline services (water, electricity, gas, transportation, etc.) as a public good 
• Fix aging infrastructure such as bridges + water/sewage
• Create pedestrian/bicycle roads (aim to host a Tour de Kanto Koshinetsu in 3 years)
• Conduct the biannual Kanto Koshinetsu regional emergency drill

4. Improve food self-sufficiency rate

• Promote local production for local consumption
• Promote Tokyo’s agriculture, forestry, and fisheries
• Support farmers in other prefectures by dispatching workers through the publicly-run employment organization

5. Mitigate overconcentration in Tokyo

• Move people away from Tokyo by inviting companies to move their businesses to other prefectures

First Impressions

• Doesn’t address COVID-19 and instead focuses on the future of Tokyo
• One of the few candidates besides Taisuke Ono who discusses over-concentration in Tokyo
• Presents policies like basic income that will increase government expenditure a lot (taxed in the future?)