{"id":431389,"date":"2026-05-08T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T08:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/431389\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T08:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T08:00:08","slug":"japanese-town-assembly-removes-unconscious-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/431389\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Town Assembly Removes Unconscious Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"csp-catelogo\">\n\t\t\t\t\tNewsfrom Japan\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"c-cate c-cate0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nippon.com\/en\/articlelist.html?f=ncf-category&amp;s=Society\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Society<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tMay 8, 2026 14:46 (JST)<\/p>\n<p>Akita, May 8 (Jiji Press)&#8211;A town assembly in Akita Prefecture, northeastern Japan, passed a no-confidence motion on Friday against its mayor, who has been unconscious for months following a brain hemorrhage.<\/p>\n<p>The passage means that the 72-year-old mayor of Hachirogata, Kikuo Hatakeyama, will automatically lose his position on May 19 under the local autonomy law. A mayoral election to choose his successor is expected to be held within 50 days.<\/p>\n<p>The motion said that removing Hatakeyama is a tough but necessary choice to prevent town administration from being stalled.<\/p>\n<p>It is rare in the country for a no-confidence motion to be filed against a mayor due to illness, according to the National Association of Chairpersons of Town and Village Assemblies.<\/p>\n<p>Hatakeyama has been unconscious since February when he underwent emergency surgery after complaining of ill health while on duty.<\/p>\n<p>[Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.]<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-keywords\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <a href=\"\">Jiji Press<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newsfrom Japan Society May 8, 2026 14:46 (JST) Akita, May 8 (Jiji Press)&#8211;A town assembly in Akita Prefecture,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46,32924],"class_list":["post-431389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-jiji-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}