was a Japanese politician who served as governor of
Toyama Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Toyama Prefecture has a population of 993,848 (1 January 2025) and has a geographic area of 4,247.61 km2 (1,640.01 sq mi). Toyama Prefecture borders Ishikawa Prefecture to the ...
(1941–1943), governor of
Niigata Prefecture
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(1945) and the second
Governor of Hokkaido
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(1959–1971). He was a member of the
Liberal Democratic Party
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. He was a graduate of the
University of Tokyo
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. He was a recipient of the
Order of the Rising Sun
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