is a Japanese politician who was the 43rd

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Kagawa Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located on the island of Shikoku. Kagawa Prefecture has a population of 949,358 (as of 2020) and is the List of Japanese prefectures by area, smallest prefecture by geographic area at . Kagawa Pr ...

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, serving three terms from 1998 until 2010. In 2009 he announced he would not contest the 2010 election and was succeeded by

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 wide ...

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* University of Tokyo alumni Politicians from Kagawa Prefecture 1940 births Living people Governors of Kagawa Prefecture {{Japan-politician-1940s-stub