The Hyogo Prefectural Meeting unanimously handed a movement of no confidence towards embattled Gov. Motohiko Saito on Thursday night — an especially uncommon transfer that forces the governor accused of office bullying to both step down or dissolve the meeting inside 10 days.
There have been solely 4 situations in Japan’s postwar historical past wherein a no-confidence movement towards a sitting governor cleared a prefectural meeting. Not one of the 4 governors selected to dissolve the meeting.
The movement, collectively submitted by all meeting members, harassed that the governor bears important ethical and political obligations in bringing stagnation to prefectural governance, and that he lacks the qualities of a pacesetter.
