What is Takashi Hiraoka?
{{Nihongo|'''Takashi Hiraoka'''|平岡 敬|Hiraoka Takashi|extra=born 21 December 1927}} is a [[Japan]]ese [[politician]] and [[journalist]]. He served as the [[mayor]] of [[Hiroshima]] from 1991 to 1999. He served as mayor for two terms and was [[Election|re-elected]] in 1995. As mayor, he helped his city and [[South Korea]]'s [[Daegu]] becoming [[Twin town|sister cities]] in 1997. He also worked as a journalist in the 1960s. He wrote mostly about [[Koreans|Korean]] victims of the [[atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki]]. He tried to get the Korean victims [[medical]] care from [[Government of Japan|Japanese government]]. Hiraoka was born in [[Osaka]]. He grew up in both Japan and Korea. He was not in Hiroshima at the time of the [[atomic bomb]]ing in August 1945.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hiroshimapeacemedia.jp/?p=23397|title=My Life: Interview with former Hiroshima Mayor Takashi Hiraoka|publisher=Hiroshima Peace Media Center|date=8 October 2009|access-date=20 April 2019|author=Nishimoto, Masami}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Hiraoka, Takashi}} [[Category:1927 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Japanese mayors]] [[Category:Japanese journalists]] [[Category:Politicians from Hiroshima]] {{Bio-stub}}