Appointed governors
*Daigo Tadamasa 1868
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Gotō Shōjirō
Count was a Japanese samurai and politician during the Bakumatsu and early Meiji period of Japanese history.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Gotō Shōjirō" in He was a leader of which would evolve into a political party.
Early life
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1868-1870
*Kimimasa Yuri 1870
*Yotsutsuji Nishi 1870-1872
*Norobu Watanabe 1872-1880
*Tateno Tsuyoshi 1880-1889
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Nishimura Sutezō 1889-1891
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Yamada Nobumichi 1891-1895
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Utsumi Tadakatsu
Baron was a Japanese bureaucrat, statesman and cabinet minister, active in Meiji period Empire of Japan.
Biography
Utsumi was born to a ''samurai'' family in Chōshū Domain, in what is now part of the city of Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi Prefectu ...
1895-1897
*Tokito Konkyo 1897-1898
*Mamoru Okimorikata 1898
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Yoshihara Saburo Yoshihara is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*Daijiro Yoshihara (born 1978), Japanese racing driver
*Jiro Yoshihara (1905–1972), Japanese painter
*Kota Yoshihara (born 1978), Japanese footballer
*Mari Yoshihara (born ...
1898
*Tadashini Kikuchi 1898-1902
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Chikaaki Takasaki 1902-1911
*Marques Okubo Toshi Takeshi 1912-1917
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Harumichi Tanabe 1927-1928
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Yūichirō Chikaraishi 1928-1929
*Saito Munenori 1931-1932
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Shinobu Agata
was Director of the Karafuto Agency (1929–1931). He was Governor of Yamagata Prefecture (1922–1924), Kagoshima Prefecture (1924–1926), Chiba Prefecture (1926–1927), Gunma Prefecture (1927–1928), Osaka (1932–1935) and Mayor of Nagoya ...
1932-1935
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Minabe Choji
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is a small town located in Hidaka District, Wakayama Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan. , the town had an estimated population of 12,137 in 4725 households and a population density of 100 persons per km². The tota ...
1941-1943
Elected governors
*Bunzo Akama 1947-1959
*Gisen Sato 1959-1971
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Ryōichi Kuroda 1971-1979
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Kazuo Nakagawa
Kazuo (カズオ, かずお) is a masculine Japanese given name.
Possible spellings
It has several written forms, and the meaning depends on the characters used (usually kanji, but sometimes hiragana). Common forms include:
* 一雄: first son, ...
1991-1995
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Knock Yokoyama
was a Japanese politician and comedian.
Born Isamu Yamada (山田勇 ''Yamada Isamu'') in Kobe, he adopted his current stage name while directing the ''Manga Trio'' manzai troupe from 1959 to 1968. Following his comedy years, he went into the ...
1995-1999
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Fusae Ohta
is a Japanese politician, a former governor of Osaka prefecture, and the country's first female prefectural governor. Her married name is . She is affiliated to the revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi.
Overview
Born in Kure, Hiroshima, she later mo ...
2000-2008
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Tōru Hashimoto
is a Japanese TV personality, politician and lawyer. He was the mayor of Osaka city and is a member of Nippon Ishin no Kai and the Osaka Restoration Association. He is one of Japan's leading right-wing conservative-populist politicians.
Early ...
2008-2011
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Ichirō Matsui
is a Japanese businessman and politician who is the current mayor of Osaka, leader of the Osaka Restoration Association (ORA) and one of the presidents of Nippon Ishin no Kai alongside Nobuyuki Baba.
Early life
Matsui attended public elementary ...
2011-2011
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Hirofumi Yoshimura
is a Japanese politician currently serving as the Governor of Osaka Prefecture. He assumed office in April 2019. He has been described as a conservative.
Early life
Yoshimura was born in the Osaka suburb of Kawachinagano. He studied law at K ...
2019-present
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