was the Governor of

Hiroshima Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, 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 ...

from 1981 to 1993. In August 1990, while participating in a symposium in Hiroshima, publicly called on Soviet leader

Mikhail Gorbachev Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet politician who served as the 8th and final leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to dissolution of the Soviet Union, the country's dissolution in 1991. He served a ...

to visit Hiroshim

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People from Hiroshima People from Shimane Prefecture Kyoto University alumni Governors of Hiroshima 1924 births 2008 deaths {{japan-politician-1920s-stub