Shigeto Nakahara was a Japanese politician who served on the Hiroshima city council during the 1940s and 1950s.
Biography[]
Shigeto Nakahara was born in Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, and he became involved in Liberal Party of Japan politics following World War II, being elected to the city council. Nakahara allied himself with the Okubo-gumi and Yamamori-gumi yakuza families, and, in 1949, Nakahara decided to propose that the ¥50 billion of Imperial Japanese Navy hoarded goods in Hiroshima be sold to finance the city's reconstruction. This motion was opposed by the Doi-gumiboss Kiyoshi Doi's political ally Shoichi Kanamaru, but Kenichi Okubo persuaded Yoshio Yamamori to rig the vote in favor of Nakahara. Tetsuya Sakai kidnapped one of Kanamaru's main allies before the vote, giving Nakahara and his faction enough votes to emerge victorious. This led to a mob war erupting between the two families, but Nakahara remained a close ally of the Yamamori-gumi into the 1950s.