Governors of

Hiroshima Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Hiroshima Prefecture has a population of 2,811,410 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 8,479 km² (3,274 sq mi). Hiroshima Prefecture borders Okayama Prefecture to the ...

served from 1871, when the Japanese government abolished the position of the ''

daimyō were powerful Japanese magnates, feudal lords who, from the 10th century to the early Meiji period in the middle 19th century, ruled most of Japan from their vast, hereditary land holdings. They were subordinate to the shogun and nominall ...

'' 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 Egi Kazuyuki (May 21, 1853 – August 23, 1932) was a Japanese politician who served as governor of Hiroshima Prefecture in 1898–1903. He was born in Yamaguchi Prefecture. He was also governor of Ibaraki Prefecture (1896–1897), Tochigi Prefect ...

28 Dec 1898 – 29 Jun 1903 *

Tokuhisa Tsunenori was a Japanese politician who served as governor of Hiroshima Prefecture from June 1903 to January 1904. He was also governor of Toyama Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Toyama Prefecture has a popu ...

29 Jun 1903 – 25 Jan 1904 * Yamada Shunzō 25 Jan 1904 – 11 Jan 1907 *

Tadashi Munakata was a Japanese politician who served as governor of Saitama Prefecture (1897–1898), Aomori Prefecture(1899–1901), Fukui Prefecture (1901–1902), Miyagi Prefecture (1902–1903), Kōchi Prefecture (1903–1907), Hiroshima Prefecture is a ...

11 Jan 1907 – 28 Mar 1912 *

Nakamura Junkuro was a Japanese politician who served as governor of Fukui Prefecture (1907-1912) and Hiroshima Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Hiroshima Prefecture has a population of 2,811,410 (1 June 2019) an ...

28 Mar 1912 – 27 Feb 1913 *

Terada Yushi Terada Yushi (January 27, 1851 – March 14, 1917) was a Japanese politician who served as governor of Tottori Prefecture (1901-1906), Okayama Prefecture (1906-1908), Miyagi Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region ...

27 Feb 1913 – 28 Apr 1916 *

Eitaro Mabuchi was a Japanese politician who served as governor of Yamagata Prefecture (1906-1912), Yamaguchi Prefecture (1914-1916), Mie Prefecture (1914-1916), Hiroshima Prefecture from April 1916 to May 1918, Kyoto Prefecture (1918-1921) and mayor of Kyoto ...

28 Apr 1916 – 7 May 1918 *

Yasukouchi Asakichi Yasukouchi Asakichi (April 15, 1873 – July 15, 1927) was a Japanese politician who served as governor of Hiroshima Prefecture from May 1918 to April 1919. He was governor of Shizuoka Prefecture (1915-1918), Fukuoka Prefecture (1919-1922) and Kan ...

7 May 1918 – 18 Apr 1919 *

Raizo Wakabayashi was a Japanese politician who served as governor of Shimane Prefecture (1908), Nara Prefecture (1909-1913), Yamanashi Prefecture (1913-1914), Saga Prefecture (1914-1915), Kagawa Prefecture (1915-1917), Ehime Prefecture (1917-1919), Hiroshima Pre ...

18 Apr 1919 – 19 Jul 1921 * Ichiro Yoda 19 Jul 1921 – 16 Oct 1922 * Kamehiko Abe 16 Oct 1922 – 25 Oct 1923 * Jiro Yamagata 25 Oct 1923 – 16 Sep 1925 *

Tsunenosuke Hamada was a Japanese politician who served as governor of Hiroshima Prefecture from September 1925 to September 1926. He was governor of Toyama Prefecture (1910-1915), Miyagi Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of ...

16 Sep 1925 – 28 Sep 1926 * Kaiichiro Suematsu 28 Sep 1926 – 7 Nov 1927 * Sukenari Yokoyama 7 Nov 1927 – 25 May 1928 * Masao Kishimoto 25 May 1928 – 5 Jul 1929 * Hiroshi Kawabuchi 5 Jul 1929 – 8 May 1931 * Takekai Shirane 8 May – 18 Dec 1931 * Ryo Chiba 18 Dec 1931 – 28 Jun 1932 *

Michio Yuzawa was a bureaucrat and cabinet minister in early Shōwa period Japan. Biography Yuzawa was born in Kamitsuga District, Tochigi in what is now part of the city of Kanuma as the son of a '' kannushi'' ( Shinto priest)]. After his graduation in ...

28 Jun 1932 – 15 Jan 1935 * Keiichi Suzuki (governor of Hiroshima), Keiichi Suzuki 15 Jan 1935 – 22 Apr 1936 * Saburo Hayakawa 18 Apr 1936 – 8 Jan 1937 * Aijiro Tomita 8 Jan 1937 – 9 Nov 1938 *

Ichisho Inuma Ichisho Inuma (February 15, 1892 – November 14, 1982) was a Japanese politician who served as governor of Hiroshima Prefecture from November 1938 to September 1939. He was a graduate of the University of Tokyo. He was also the governor of Saita ...

9 Nov 1938 – 5 Sep 1939 * Katsuroku Aikawa 5 Sep 1939 – 26 Mar 1941 *

Tokiji Yoshinaga Tokiji Yoshinaga was a Japanese politician who served as governor of Hiroshima Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Hiroshima Prefecture has a population of 2,811,410 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic ...

26 Mar 1941 – 15 Jun 1942 *

Saiichiro Miyamura Saiichiro Miyamura (June 1893 – ?) was a Japanese politician who served as governor of Hiroshima Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Hiroshima Prefecture has a population of 2,811,410 (1 June 2019) a ...

15 Jun 1942 – 1 Jul 1943 * Sukenari Yokoyama 1 Jul 1943 – 1 Aug 1944 * Mitsuma Matsumura 1 Aug 1944 – 21 Apr 1945 * Korekiyo Otsuka 21 Apr – 10 Jun 1945 *

Genshin Takano , also known as , was the most influential of a number of scholar-monks of the Buddhist Tendai sect active during the tenth and eleventh centuries in Japan. Genshin, who was trained in both esoteric and exoteric teachings, wrote a number of tre ...

10 Jun – 11 Oct 1945 * Kyuichi Kodama 11 Oct – 27 Oct 1945 * Tsunei Kusunose 27 Oct 1945 – 14 Mar 1947 * Shinichiro Takekawa 14 Mar – 16 Apr 1947

Elected governors 1947–present

* Tsunei Kusunose 16 Apr 1947 – 29 Nov 1950 *

Hiroo Ōhara was the Governor of Hiroshima Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Hiroshima Prefecture has a population of 2,811,410 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 8,479 km² (3,274 sq mi). Hiroshima Prefe ...

24 Jan 1951 – 13 Apr 1962 * Izuo Nagano 29 May 1962 – 10 Nov 1973 * Hiroshi Miyazawa 16 Dec 1973 – 29 Oct 1981 * Toranosuke Takeshita 29 Nov 1981 – 28 Nov 1993 * Yūzan Fujita 29 Nov 1993 – 29 Nov 2009 * Hidehiko Yuzaki 29 Nov 2009 – present

External links

List of Japanese prefectural governors
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