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2017 In Japan
The following is an overview of the year 2017 in Japan. Incumbents *Emperor of Japan, Emperor: Akihito *Prime Minister of Japan, Prime Minister: Shinzō Abe Governors *List of governors of Aichi Prefecture, Aichi Prefecture: Hideaki Omura *Akita Prefecture: Norihisa Satake *List of governors of Aomori Prefecture, Aomori Prefecture: Shingo Mimura *Chiba Prefecture: Kensaku Morita *Ehime Prefecture: Tokihiro Nakamura *Fukui Prefecture: Issei Nishikawa *Fukuoka Prefecture: Hiroshi Ogawa (politician), Hiroshi Ogawa *Fukushima Prefecture: Masao Uchibori *Gifu Prefecture: Hajime Furuta *Gunma Prefecture: Masaaki Osawa *Governors of Hiroshima Prefecture, Hiroshima Prefecture: Hidehiko Yuzaki *Governor of Hokkaido, Hokkaido: Harumi Takahashi *Hyogo Prefecture: Toshizō Ido *List of governors of Ibaraki Prefecture, Ibaraki Prefecture: Masaru Hashimoto (until 26 September); Kazuhiko Ōigawa (starting 26 September) *List of governors of Ishikawa Prefecture, Ishikawa Prefecture: Masanori ...
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Hajime Furuta
is a former governor of Gifu Prefecture in Japan. He held the office for five terms between 2005 and 2025. A native of Gifu City, he was chosen as the final torchbearer for the National Sports Festival when it was held in Gifu City while he was a senior at Gifu Prefectural Senior High School. He entered the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo and joined the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) in 1971. Career in National Government During his time at MITI, he was sent to study at the École nationale d'administration in France. From 1994 to 1996, he served as the Executive Secretary to both Prime Ministers Tsutomu Hata and Tomiichi Murayama. Soon after he was appointed Director-General of the Economic Cooperation Department in the International Trade Bureau of MITI and later the Director-General for Commerce and Distribution Policy in the same ministry. In 2002, he was moved to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to head the Economic Cooperation Bureau af ...
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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 ...
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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 List of islands of Japan#Main islands, four main islands of Japan. It is long and between at its widest. It has a population of 3.8 million, the least populated of Japan's four main islands. It is south of Honshu ... region of Japan. He held office for three terms, from September 2010 to September 2022. References External links * 1952 births Living people People from Kan'onji, Kagawa Politicians from Kagawa Prefecture University of Tokyo alumni Governors of Kagawa Prefecture {{japan-politician-1950s-stub ...
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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 Centrism, centristThe Democratic Party of Japan was widely described as centrist: * * * * * * * to Centre-left politics, centre-left, Liberalism, liberal or Social liberalism, social-liberal List of political parties in Japan, .... 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 ...
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Masanori Tanimoto
is a Japanese politician who was the governor of Ishikawa Prefecture between 1994 and 2022, serving seven terms in total. Early life and political career Tanimoto was born in April 16, 1945. He graduated from Kyoto University Faculty of Law in March 1968 and joined the Ministry of Home Affairs (now part of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications) in April. He later became the director of the Shimane Prefectural General Affairs Department, Finance Division on August 1, 1975. He became deputy mayor of Miyazaki City on October 10, 1982. He became the director of the Ibaraki Prefecture Environment Bureau on April 1, 1986, and the department head of Ibaraki Prefecture General Affairs on April 1, 1988. He became the vice governor of Ishikawa Prefecture on December 28, 1991, under Yōichi Nakanishi. Governor of Ishikawa Prefecture (1994–2022) He was elected as the governor of Ishikawa on March 27, 1994 following the death of Nakanishi. He was reelected for the seventh and ...
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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 Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu island. Ishikawa Prefecture has a population of 1,096,721 (1 January 2025) and has a geographic area of 4,186 Square kilometre, km2 (1,616 sq mi). Ishikawa Pr ...
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Masaru Hashimoto
is a Japanese politician who was the governor of Ibaraki Prefecture from 1993 to 2017. Life Masaru Hashimoto was born on 19 November 1945 in Tōkai, Ibaraki Prefecture. He is a graduate of the University of Tokyo, and joined the Ministry of Home Affairs An interior ministry or ministry of the interior (also called ministry of home affairs or ministry of internal affairs) is a government department that is responsible for domestic policy, public security and law enforcement. In some states, the i ... in 1969. References * External links * 1945 births Living people University of Tokyo alumni Governors of Ibaraki Prefecture {{Japan-politician-1940s-stub ...
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List Of Governors Of Ibaraki Prefecture
The following is a list of governors of Ibaraki Prefecture. The first governor of Ibaraki Prefecture was appointed by the Meiji government on July 13, 1871. Governors of Ibaraki were politically appointed from 1871 until the post-war period starting in 1945, after which they were popularly elected. Appointed governors * Yamaoka Tesshū 1871 *Yamaguchi Tadasada 1872 *Nomura Motosuke 1872 *Toru Watanabe 1872-1873 *Seki Shinpei 1873-1875 *Nakayama Nobuyasu 1875-1877 *Tatsutaro Nomura 1877-1880 *Hitomi Katsutaro 1880-1885 *Shima Isei 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 *Ōtsuka Mitsugu 1906-1907 *Mori Masataka 1907-1908 *Keisuke Sakanaka 1912-1917 * Yūichirō Chikaraishi 1917-1921 *Genjiro Moriya 1921-1923 *Shohei Fujinuma 1923-1924 *Tsugino Daisaburo 192 ...
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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 Great Hanshin Earthquake (, ) occurred on January 17, 1995, at 05:46:53 JST in the southern part of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, including the region of Hanshin. It measured 6.9 on the moment magnitude scale and had a maximum intensity of 7 o ... and tackling the swine flu outbreak. References External links ...
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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 is the list of islands of Japan by area, second-largest island of Japan and comprises the largest and northernmost prefectures of Japan, prefecture, making up its own list of regions of Japan, region. The Tsugaru Strait separates Hokkaidō fr ... 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 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 birt ...
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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:Governors of Hokkaido Prefecture Hokkaido Prefecture Hokkaido is the list of islands of Japan by area, second-largest island of Japan and comprises the largest and northernmost prefectures of Japan, prefecture, making up its own list of regions of Japan, region. The Tsugaru Strait separates Hokkaidō fr ...
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