2019 In Japan

	2019 In Japan Events in the year 2019 in Japan. Incumbents Emperor: Akihito (until 30 April), Naruhito (since 1 May) 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 (until 23 April); Tatsuji Sugimoto (starting 23 April) Fukuoka Prefecture: Hiroshi Ogawa Fukushima Prefecture: Masao Uchibori Gifu Prefecture: Hajime Furuta Gunma Prefecture: Masaaki Osawa (until 28 July); Ichita Yamamoto (starting 28 July) Hiroshima Prefecture: Hidehiko Yuzaki Hokkaido: Harumi Takahashi (until 23 April); Naomichi Suzuki (starting 23 April) Hyogo Prefecture: Toshizō Ido Ibaraki Prefecture: Kazuhiko Ōigawa Ishikawa Prefecture: Masanori Tanimoto Iwate Prefecture: Takuya Tasso Kagawa Prefecture: Keizō Hamada Kagoshima Prefecture: Satoshi Mitazono Kanagawa Prefecture: Yuji Kuroiwa Kochi Prefecture: M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south. Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans Japanese archipelago, an archipelago of List of islands of Japan, 6852 islands covering ; the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu (the "mainland"), Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa Island, Okinawa. Tokyo is the Capital of Japan, nation's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto. Japan is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh most populous country in the world, as well as one of the List of countries and dependencies by population density, most densely populated and Urbanization by country, urbanized. About three-fourths of Geography of Japan, the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
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	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]
	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]
	Naomichi Suzuki is a Japanese politician who currently serves as Governor of Hokkaidō. He previously served as mayor of Yūbari city for two consecutive terms from 2011 to 2019. He had also served in Regional Sovereignty Strategy Office of Cabinet Office and as a chief of General Affairs Division in General Affairs Department at Tokyo Governor's Office. Early life Suzuki was born in Kasukabe city of Saitama Prefecture and was raised in Misato City in the same Prefecture. He attended Misato High School in Misato City. He lived with his mother due to divorce of his parents. He wasn't able to attend college due to economic problems. At 18 years of age he passed the Tokyo Metropolitan Staff Employment Examination and entered the Tokyo Metropolitan Government in April 1999 as an employee. In April 2000, he took admission at Hosei University and graduated from law faculty of the university in 2004. In University he served as captain of boxing club and was runner-up in 2002 at National Sports To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Harumi Takahashi is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party and currently a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature). She served as governor of the prefecture of Hokkaido for four terms from 2003 to 2019. She graduated from Hitotsubashi University with a Bachelor of Economics degree in 1976. She started her career as a bureaucrat in the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry The or METI, is a ministry of the Government of Japan. It was created by the 2001 Central Government Reform when the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) merged with agencies from other ministries related to economic activities, ... and quit in 2003. She was elected in April 2003, becoming the first female governor of Hokkaido and the fourth female governor in Japanese history. External links An article on the electoral campaign of Harumi Takahashi, published by the American Political Science Association (PDF) Personal website 1954 births L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Governor Of Hokkaido The is the head of the local government of Hokkaido, Japan's largest prefecture. The seat of the local government is located in Sapporo, the capital city of the prefecture. The current governor is Naomichi Suzuki. List of governors This is the list of the governors of Hokkaido. {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Governors Of Hokkaido Hokkaido Prefecture Hokkaido is Japan's second largest island and comprises the largest and northernmost prefecture, making up its own region. The Tsugaru Strait separates Hokkaidō from Honshu; the two islands are connected by the undersea railway Seikan Tunnel. The la ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]