was the Governor of
Hiroshima Prefecture from 1981 to 1993.
In August 1990, while participating in a symposium in Hiroshima, he publicly called on Soviet leader
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to dissolution of the Soviet Union, the country's dissolution in 1991. He served a ...
to visit the city.
References
People from Hiroshima
Politicians from Shimane Prefecture
Kyoto University alumni
Governors of Hiroshima
1924 births
2008 deaths
20th-century Japanese politicians
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