Nihito Arakawa Nihito Arakawa Arakawa was born in Musashino, Tokyo, Japan, and move to Fussa soon after. Fussa is the city well known by U.S. Air Force Base and Ryū Murakami's novel "Almost Transparent Blue". He enjoyed basketball with fellow kids while living there from the age of two to thirteen, then relocated to Minamiizu, Shizuoka. He became involved in middle-distance running and tennis during junior high school, and served as the captain and pitcher for the high school's baseball team. It was also during high school that he watched the Félix Trinidad fights on WOWOW and was inclined into boxing. He
Alan Arakawa of the vote. Arakawa won 23 of Maui's 39 election precincts, mostly in South and West Maui, while Tavares won 11 precincts in Central Maui. Both Tavares and Arakawa qualified for the 2010 mayoral general election on November 2, 2010. The race was a rematch of the 2006 mayoral election, in which incumbent Mayor Arakawa was defeated by Tavares. In the final vote tally, Arakawa defeated Tavares with nearly 59% of the vote to her 41%. Alan Arakawa Alan M. Arakawa (born 1951) is an American politician who is the 7th Mayor of the County of Maui in Hawaii. He