Keiichi Tsuruoka
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is the former mayor of Chiba, Chiba
in Japan
, serving from his election in 2001 until his arrest and subsequent retirement in 2009 for corruption-related charges. He was an independent who had previously served in the Home Affairs Ministry. He is a graduate of the University of Tokyo
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Chiba, Chiba
is the capital city of Chiba Prefecture, Japan. It is located approximately 40 km east of the center of Tokyo on Tokyo Bay. Chiba City became a government designated city in 1992. Its population as of 2008 is approximately 960,000....
in Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
, serving from his election in 2001 until his arrest and subsequent retirement in 2009 for corruption-related charges. He was an independent who had previously served in the Home Affairs Ministry. He is a graduate of the University of Tokyo
University of Tokyo
, abbreviated as , is a major research university located in Tokyo, Japan. The University has 10 faculties with a total of around 30,000 students, 2,100 of whom are foreign. Its five campuses are in Hongō, Komaba, Kashiwa, Shirokane and Nakano. It is considered to be the most prestigious university...
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