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2017 In Japan
The following is an overview of the year 2017 in Japan. Incumbents *Emperor: Akihito *Prime Minister: Shinzō Abe Governors * Aichi Prefecture: Hideaki Omura *Akita Prefecture: Norihisa Satake *Aomori Prefecture: Shingo Mimura *Chiba Prefecture: Kensaku Morita *Ehime Prefecture: Tokihiro Nakamura *Fukui Prefecture: Issei Nishikawa *Fukuoka Prefecture: Hiroshi Ogawa *Fukushima Prefecture: Masao Uchibori *Gifu Prefecture: Hajime Furuta *Gunma Prefecture: Masaaki Osawa * Hiroshima Prefecture: Hidehiko Yuzaki *Hokkaido: Harumi Takahashi *Hyogo Prefecture: Toshizō Ido *Ibaraki Prefecture: Masaru Hashimoto (until 26 September); Kazuhiko Ōigawa (starting 26 September) * Ishikawa Prefecture: Masanori Tanimoto *Iwate Prefecture: Takuya Tasso *Kagawa Prefecture: Keizō Hamada *Kagoshima Prefecture: Satoshi Mitazono *Kanagawa Prefecture: Yuji Kuroiwa *Kochi: Masanao Ozaki *Kumamoto Prefecture: Ikuo Kabashima * Kyoto Prefecture: Keiji Yamada *Mie Prefecture: Eikei Suzuki * Miyagi P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017
File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a series of missiles in the face of international condemnation; The 2017 Puebla earthquake strikes Central Mexico; Spain rejects the result of the 2017 Catalan independence referendum; 2017 Las Vegas shooting, the deadliest mass shooting in American history; The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft ends its mission, 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 Battle of Mosul (2016-2017) rect 200 0 400 200 Manchester Arena bombing rect 400 0 600 200 Solar Eclipse of August 21st, 2017 rect 0 200 300 400 Cassini-Huygens rect 300 200 600 400 2017 North Korean missile test rect 0 400 200 600 2017 Las Vegas shooting rect 200 400 400 600 2017–2018 Spanish constitutional crisis rect 400 400 600 600 2017 Puebla earthquake 2017 was designated as Internation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governors Of Hiroshima Prefecture
Governors of Hiroshima Prefecture served from 1871, when the Japanese government abolished the position of the ''daimyō'' of Hiroshima. Until 1947, the governors of Hiroshima Prefecture were appointed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Tokyo, but from 1947 onward they were elected. Appointed governors 1871–1947 * Viscount Kōno Togama 15 Aug – 15 Nov 1871 * Senbon Hisanobu 15 Nov – 27 Nov 1871 * Viscount Kōno Togama 27 Nov – 26 Dec 1871 * Date Muneoki 26 Dec 1871 – 25 Jan 1875 * Fujii Tsutomu 25 Jan 1875 – 6 Apr 1880 * Sadaaki Senda 6 Apr 1880 – 26 Dec 1889 * Baron Nabeshima Miki 26 Dec 1889 – 23 Apr 1896 * Orita Hiraochi 23 Apr 1896 – 7 Apr 1897 * Asada Tokunori 7 Apr 1897 – 14 May 1898 * Baron Takatoshi Iwamura 14 May – 28 Jul 1898 * Hattori Ichizo 28 Jul – 28 Dec 1898 * Egi Kazuyuki 28 Dec 1898 – 29 Jun 1903 * Tokuhisa Tsunenori 29 Jun 1903 – 25 Jan 1904 * Yamada Shunzō 25 Jan 1904 – 11 Jan 1907 * Tadashi Munakata 11 Jan 1907 – 28 Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuji Kuroiwa
Yuji or Yu Ji may refer to: * Yuji Naka, is a Japanese video game programmer, designer and producer * Yu Ji (painter), a Qing dynasty painter and calligrapher * Yūji, a common masculine Japanese given name * Consort Yu (Xiang Yu's wife) (虞姬; Yuji), the concubine of Xiang Yu, subject of the play ''Farewell My Concubine'' * Gan Ji, a Taoist who lived in the late Han Dynasty. His name was believed to be misspelled as "Yu Ji". * 47077 Yuji, a main-belt asteroid ;Towns * Yuji, Wuqiao County (于集镇), in Wuqiao County, Hebei * Yuji, Shangcheng County (余集镇), in Shangcheng County, Henan * Yuji, Linghai (余积镇), in Linghai City, Liaoning * Yuji, Liaocheng (于集镇), in Dongchangfu District, Liaocheng, Shandong ;Townships * Yuji Township, Funan County (于集乡), Anhui * Yuji Township, Lingbi County (虞姬乡), in Lingbi County, Anhui * Yuji Township, Ling County (于集乡), in Ling County, Shandong ;Characters * Yuji is the name of a character in Regular Show S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Governors Of Kanagawa Prefecture
* Higashikuze Michitomi April–November 1868 * Terashima Munenori 1868–1869 * Mutsu Munemitsu 1871–1872 * Ōe Taku 1872–1874 * Nomura Yasushi 1876–1881 * Asada Tokunori (1st term) 1889–1891 * Utsumi Tadakatsu 1891–1893 * Asada Tokunori 2nd term 1898–1900 * Chūichi Ariyoshi 1915–1919 * Yasukouchi Asakichi 1922–1924 * Seino Chotarno 1924-1925 * Zenjirō Horikiri 1925–1926 * Ikeda Hiroshi 1926-1929 * Jiro Yamagata 1929–1931 * Sukenari Yokoyama 1932–1935 * Seiichi Ōmura 1938–1939 * Ichisho Inuma 1939–1940 * Mitsuma Matsumura 1940–1942 * Iwataro Uchiyama 1947-1967 * Bungo Tsuda 1967–1975 * Kazuji Nagasu 1975-1995 * Hiroshi Okazaki 1995-2003 * Shigefumi Matsuzawa 2003–2011 * Yuji Kuroiwa 2011–present {{Authority control Kanagawa Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Kanagawa Prefecture is the second-most populous prefecture of Japan at 9,221,129 (1 April 2022) and third-densest at . Its geograp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satoshi Mitazono
is a Japanese politician and journalist who is the former governor of Kagoshima Prefecture. He defeated the incumbent Yūichirō Itō at an election held on 10 July 2016. Early life and education Mitazono was born in Ibusuki, Kagoshima in 1958. In 1980 he graduated from Waseda University with a bachelor's degree in education and was employed by TV Asahi as a political journalist. Pre-politics career During his career with TV Asahi, Mitazono was responsible for reporting on national politics. From 1990 he was the political reporter for ''News Station'', Asahi's daily night-time news program. In 2004 he was employed as a part-time lecturer at Waseda University's Graduate School of Public Management. Political career On 31 December 2015 Mitazono announced his intention to run in the July 2016 Kagoshima gubernatorial election as an independent candidate. During a press conference in front of the prefectural government's building, he stated that the gap between regions was widening a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keizō Hamada
is a former Japanese politician and finance bureaucrat and a former governor of Kagawa Prefecture in the Shikoku is the smallest of the four main islands of Japan. It is long and between wide. It has a population of 3.8 million (, 3.1%). It is south of Honshu and northeast of Kyushu. Shikoku's ancient names include ''Iyo-no-futana-shima'' (), '' ... region of Japan. He held office for three terms, from September 2010 to September 2022. References External links * 1952 births Living people Politicians from Kagawa Prefecture University of Tokyo alumni Governors of Kagawa Prefecture {{japan-politician-1950s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takuya Tasso
is a Japanese politician and the current governor of Iwate Prefecture. He is a native of Morioka and graduate of the University of Tokyo. Biography Tasso joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1988, receiving a master's degree in international relations from Johns Hopkins University in the United States while with the ministry. In 1996, he was elected to the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature) for the first time as a member of the New Frontier Party and subsequently served as a diet member for the Democratic Party of Japan The was a centristThe Democratic Party of Japan was widely described as centrist: * * * * * * * to centre-left liberal or social-liberal political party in Japan from 1998 to 2016. The party's origins lie in the previous Democratic .... He was first elected governor of Iwate prefecture in 2007 and as of 2012 is in his second four-year term. On July 9, 2012 he announced that he would sever his ties with the DPJ a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masanori Tanimoto
is a Japanese politician who was the governor of Ishikawa Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu island. Ishikawa Prefecture has a population of 1,140,573 (31 October 2019) and has a geographic area of 4,186 km2 (1,616 sq mi). Ishikawa Prefecture borders Toyama Prefecture to ... between 1994 and 2022. After his first election, in 1994, he was reelected 6 times. In 2018 he won his seventh term of office. See also * Premium passport References External links * 1945 births Living people Politicians from Hyōgo Prefecture Kyoto University alumni Governors of Ishikawa Prefecture {{Japan-politician-1940s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Governors Of Ishikawa Prefecture ...
Appointed governors *Takatoshi Iwamura 1883-1890 *Shiba Sankarasu 1898-1900 *Kiichirō Kumagai 1914-1915 *Ōta Masahiro 1915-1916 *Jiro Yamagata 1922-1923 *Korekiyo Otsuka 1927 *Sukenari Yokoyama 1927 *Nakano Kunikazu 1929-1931 *Masasuke Kodama 1937-1938 *Shunsuke Kondo 1938-1939 *Narita Ichiro 1939-1940 Elected governors *Wakio Shibano 1947-1955 *Jujitsu Taya 1955-1963 *Yōichi Nakanishi 1963-1994 *Masanori Tanimoto 1994–2022 *Hiroshi Hase 2022-present {{Authority control Ishikawa Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu island. Ishikawa Prefecture has a population of 1,140,573 (31 October 2019) and has a geographic area of 4,186 km2 (1,616 sq mi). Ishikawa Prefecture borders Toyama Prefecture to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masaru Hashimoto
is Japanese politician who was the governor of Ibaraki Prefecture from 1993 to 2017. Life Masaru Hashimoto was born on 19 November 1945 in Tōkai, Ibaraki Prefecture. He is a graduate of the University of Tokyo, and joined the Ministry of Home Affairs An interior ministry (sometimes called a ministry of internal affairs or ministry of home affairs) is a government department that is responsible for internal affairs. Lists of current ministries of internal affairs Named "ministry" * Ministry ... in 1969. References * External links * 1945 births Living people University of Tokyo alumni Governors of Ibaraki Prefecture {{Japan-politician-1940s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Governors Of Ibaraki Prefecture
Appointed governors *Yamaoka Tesshū 1871 *Yamaguchi Tadasada 1872 *Nomura Motosuke 1872 *Toru Watanabe 1872-1873 *Seki Shinpei 1873-1875 *Unknown 1875-1877 *Tatsutaro Nomura 1877-1880 *Hitomi Katsutaro 1880-1885 *Shima 1885-1886 *Sadanori Yasuda 1886-1891 *Shoichiro Ishii 1891-1892 *Nobuaki Makino 1892-1893 * Chikaaki Takasaki 1893-1896 *Egi Kazuyuki 1896-1897 *Motohiro Onoda 1897-1898 *Kiyoshi Honba 1898-1899 *Fumi Kashiwada 1899-1900 *Kono Chuzo 1900-1903 *Teru Terahara 1903-1906 *Otsuka 1906-1907 *Mori Masataka 1907-1908 *Keisuke Sakanaka 1912-1917 *Yūichirō Chikaraishi 1917-1921 *Genjiro Moriya 1921-1923 *Shohei Fujinuma 1923-1924 *Tsugino Daisaburo 1924-1925 *Kaiichiro Suematsu 1925-1926 *Kihachiro Ito 1926-1927 *Sanosuke 1927 *Jiro Morioka 1927-1929 *Shozo Ushijima 1929-1931 *Tanaka 1931 *Seikichi Kimishima 1931-1932 *Abe Kashichi 1932-1935 *Ando Kyoushirou 1935-1937 *Nobuo Hayashi 1937-1938 *Shigeru Hamaza 1938-1939 *Tokitsugi Yoshinaga 1939-1941 *Kanichi Naito 1941-1942 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toshizō Ido
is a Japanese politician and the 48th - 52nd governor of Hyōgo Prefecture in Japan. He became the Governor of Hyōgo Profecture in 2001, a position he held for 5 terms over 20 years. He is a native of Tatsuno, Hyōgo and graduate of the University of Tokyo, he joined the Ministry of Home Affairs in 1968. 2009 election Gov. Toshizo Ido was re-elected in 2009 to a third term. Ido, backed by the LDP, New Komeito and the Social Democratic Party, appeared to have easily defeated Kotaro Tanaka, 60, endorsed by the Japanese Communist Party. During the campaign, Ido publicized his achievements in promoting reconstruction following the 1995 Great Hanshin earthquake The , or Kobe earthquake, occurred on January 17, 1995, at 05:46:53 JST (January 16 at 20:46:53 UTC) in the southern part of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, including the region known as Hanshin. It measured 6.9 on the moment magnitude scale and ha ... and tackling the swine flu outbreak. References External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
