Japan mayor in his 20s picked for Time magazine's list of rising stars

The 28-year-old mayor of the western Japan city of Ashiya has been picked as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential rising stars, the U.S. magazine said Tuesday.Ryosuke Takashima became Japan's youngest mayor in 2023 after being elected at age 26 to lead the Hyogo Prefecture city with a population just over 90,000. The magazine said he is "breaking the mold" in "a country shaped by its gerontocratic politics."The Harvard-educated Osaka Prefecture native ran as an independent, beating the incumbent and two other candidates in the mayoral election.Among others selected for the "2025 TIME…READ FULL ARTICLE