Kunio Hiramatsu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Kunio Hiramatsu

Japanese politician

Date of Birth: 15-Nov-1948

Place of Birth: Amagasaki, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan

Profession: politician, announcer

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

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Kunio Hiramatsu (?? ??, Hiramatsu Kunio, born 15 November 1948) was the mayor of Osaka in Japan.
He was elected in 2007 with centre-left support from the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), People's New Party and the Social Democratic Party, defeating the centre-right supported incumbent Jun'ichi Seki by 50,000 votes. Hiramatsu unsuccessfully ran for re-election in Osaka's mayoral election on 27 November 2011, when his challenger was the former Osaka Governor Toru Hashimoto.
Despite support from both major Japanese national parties (the DPJ and the Liberal Democratic Party), and the Japanese Communist Party retracting their candidate to support his re-election bid, Hiramatsu lost to Hashimoto by a margin of well over 200,000 votes.