Please answer the following question: Facts:   - website: -lsb- http://www.hosaka.gr.jp hosaka.gr.jp -rsb-    - party: independent -lrb- formerly of social democratic party -rrb-    - predecessor: noriyuki kumamoto    - office: member setagaya , tokyo of the house of representatives 10th mayor of      - term end: october 10 , 2003 july 21 , 2009    - term start: october 27 , 2011 20 , 1996 september 12 , 2005 april    - birth date: 26 november 1955    - name: nobuto hosaka    - image: nobuto hosaka.png    - birth place: sendai , miyagi prefecture   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of nobuto hosaka .
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nobuto hosaka -lrb- 保坂 展人 `` hosaka nobuto '' -rrb- is a japanese politician .he currently is the mayor of setagaya , tokyo , and was a member of the house of representatives for the social democratic party until july 21 , 2009 .hosaka campaigned and won the mayor 's job on an anti-nuclear platform in april 2011 , just over a month after the fukushima nuclear disaster .according to the `` wall street journal '' , hosaka `` is determined to turn this city ward of 840,000 people , the largest in tokyo , into the front-runner of a movement that will put an end to japan 's reliance on atomic power and accelerate the use of renewable energy '' .hosaka opposes the death penalty , and holds the position of secretary general of the parliamentary league for the abolition of the death penalty .he is also highly critical of continued japanese moral panic against the otaku subculture in the nation , with one notable case of criticism displayed against public and media related assumptions and gossip surrounding the incidents of november 17 , 2004 , when kaoru kobayashi murdered a 7-year-old girl .in 2006 and 2007 , hosaka joined the gay parade in tokyo .his boss mizuho fukushima also joined with him in 2007 .