Hyogo meeting passes no-confidence movement towards embattled governor

The Hyogo Prefectural Assembly 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 during which a no-confidence movement towards a sitting governor cleared a prefectural meeting. None of the 4 governors selected to dissolve the meeting.

The movement, collectively submitted by all meeting members, confused that the governor bears vital ethical and political tasks in bringing stagnation to prefectural governance, and that he lacks the qualities of a pacesetter.