List of governors of Japan

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This is a list of the current (as of 20 April 2009 (2009 -04-20)^[update]) governors of the prefectures of Japan.

Current Governor	Picture	Prefecture	Took office	Office expires
Masaaki Kanda		Aichi	February 15, 1999	February 14, 2011
Norihisa Satake		Akita	April 20, 2009	April 19, 2013
Shingo Mimura		Aomori	June 29, 2003	June 28, 2011
Kensaku Morita		Chiba	April 5, 2009	April 4, 2013
Moriyuki Kato		Ehime	January 28, 1999	January 27, 2011
Issei Nishikawa		Fukui	April 23, 2003	April 22, 2011
Wataru Aso		Fukuoka	April 23, 1995	April 22, 2011
Yuhei Sato		Fukushima	November 12, 2006	November 11, 2010
Hajime Furuta		Gifu	February 6, 2005	February 5, 2013
Masaaki Osawa		Gunma	July 28, 2007	July 27, 2011
Yuzan Fujita		Hiroshima	November 29, 1993	November 28, 2009
Harumi Takahashi		Hokkaidō	April 23, 2003	April 22, 2011
Toshizo Ido		Hyogo	August 1, 2001	July 31, 2009
Masaru Hashimoto		Ibaraki	September 26, 1993	September 25, 2009
Masanori Tanimoto		Ishikawa	March 29, 1994	March 28, 2010
Takuya Tasso		Iwate	April 30, 2007	April 29, 2011
Takeki Manabe		Kagawa	September 5, 1998	September 4, 2010
Yuichiro Ito		Kagoshima	July 28, 2004	July 27, 2012
Shigefumi Matsuzawa		Kanagawa	April 23, 2003	April 22, 2011
Masanao Ozaki		Kochi	December 7, 2007	December 6, 2011
Ikuo Kabashima		Kumamoto	April 16, 2008	April 15, 2012
Keiji Yamada		Kyoto	April 16, 2002	April 15, 2010
Akihiko Noro		Mie	April 21, 2003	April 20, 2011
Yoshihiro Murai		Miyagi	November 21, 2005	November 20, 2009
Hideo Higashikokubaru		Miyazaki	January 21, 2007	January 20, 2011
Jin Murai		Nagano	September 1, 2006	August 31, 2010
Genjiro Kaneko		Nagasaki	March 2, 1998	March 1, 2010
Shogo Arai		Nara	May 3, 2007	May 2, 2011
Hirohiko Izumida		Niigata	October 25, 2004	October 24, 2012
Katsusada Hirose		Oita	April 28, 2003	April 27, 2011
Masahiro Ishii		Okayama	November 12, 1996	November 11, 2012
Hirokazu Nakaima		Okinawa	December 10, 2006	December 9, 2010
Tōru Hashimoto		Osaka	February 6, 2008	February 5, 2012
Yasushi Furukawa		Saga	April 23, 2003	April 22, 2011
Kiyoshi Ueda		Saitama	August 31, 2003	August 30, 2011
Yukiko Kada		Shiga	July 19, 2006	July 18, 2010
Zenbe Mizoguchi		Shimane	April 13, 2007	April 12, 2011
Heita Kawakatsu		Shizuoka	July 5, 2009	July 4, 2013
Tomikazu Fukuda		Tochigi	December 9, 2004	December 8, 2012
Kamon Iizumi		Tokushima	May 18, 2003	May 17, 2011
Shintaro Ishihara		Tokyo	April 23, 1999	April 22, 2011
Shinji Hirai		Tottori	April 13, 2007	April 12, 2011
Takakazu Ishii		Toyama	November 9, 2004	November 8, 2012
Yoshinobu Nisaka		Wakayama	December 17, 2006	December 16, 2010
Mieko Yoshimura		Yamagata	February 14, 2009	February 13, 2012
Sekinari Nii		Yamaguchi	August 22, 1996	August 21, 2012
Shomei Yokouchi		Yamanashi	February 17, 2007	February 16, 2011

References

• "知事ファイル" (in Japanese). 全国知事会ホームページ. 2007-10-10. http://www.nga.gr.jp/tijifile/filetop.html. Retrieved 2007-11-21. 
• "List of Prefectural Governors" (PDF). 2008-08-22. http://www.nga.gr.jp/english/tijifile/tiji080822.pdf. Retrieved 2008-10-28.