Yukio Koshimori

Yukio Koshimori (越森 幸夫 Koshimori Yukio, 10 December 1930 – 28 February 2005) was a Japanese politician. He was mayor of Okushiri, Hokkaidō when Okushiri Island was hit by a devastating earthquake with tsunami^[1] that caused 201 deaths on 12 July 1993.^[2]

Koshimori was elected to Okushiri's assembly in April 1959. He was elected mayor of Okushiri in 1975, and served for 22 consecutive years in spite of his arrest and conviction for bribery in 1984 of which he denied.^[3]

In 2001, Koshimori was arrested and indicted for another act of bribery,^[3] for which he was forced to resign and succeeded by Tōru Gambara. The District Court of Sapporo ordered a two-year jail term for Koshimori, but the High Court granted him a suspended term with consideration for his illness in 2004.^[4] The following year, he died of liver cancer at age 74 in Hakodate, Hokkaidō.

References

• 越森幸夫氏死去 元北海道奥尻町長. 47 News (in Japanese). Press Net Japan. Kyodo. 28 February 2005. Retrieved 6 May 2009.
• うに、あわびで奥尻ブランド化. Construction Graph (in Japanese). Sapporo: Jichi Times. June 2000. Retrieved 6 May 2009.

1. Pollack, Andrew (14 July 1993). "97 Japanese Reported Killed By Quake and Huge Waves". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 May 2009.
2. Hongo, Jun (24 April 2007). "Getting a handle on earthquakes". The Japan Times. Retrieved 6 May 2009.
3. 北海道奥尻町の前町長らを再逮捕 道警. The Mainichi Shimbun (in Japanese). 8 February 2001. Archived from the original on 3 February 2002. Retrieved 6 May 2009.
4. 前奥尻町長に一転猶予判決 汚職事件で札幌高裁. 47 News (in Japanese). Press Net Japan. Kyodo. 22 January 2004. Retrieved 6 May 2009.