List of prefectural governors in Japan

This is a list of current governors of the prefectures of Japan.

Current Governor	Picture	Prefecture	Took office	Office expires
Hideaki Omura		Aichi	February 15, 2011	February 14, 2015
Norihisa Satake		Akita	April 20, 2009	April 19, 2013
Shingo Mimura		Aomori	June 29, 2003	June 28, 2015
Kensaku Morita		Chiba	April 5, 2009	April 4, 2013
Tokihiro Nakamura		Ehime	December 1, 2010	November 30, 2014
Issei Nishikawa		Fukui	April 23, 2003	April 22, 2015
Hiroshi Ogawa		Fukuoka	April 23, 2011	April 22, 2015
Yūhei Satō		Fukushima	November 12, 2006	November 11, 2014
Hajime Furuta		Gifu	February 6, 2005	February 5, 2013
Masaaki Ōsawa		Gunma	July 28, 2007	July 27, 2015
Hidehiko Yuzaki		Hiroshima	November 29, 2009	November 28, 2013
Harumi Takahashi		Hokkaidō	April 23, 2003	April 22, 2015
Motohiko Saitō		Hyogō	August 1, 2021	July 31, 2025
Kazuhiko Ōigawa		Ibaraki	September 25, 2017	September 25, 2021
Masanori Tanimoto		Ishikawa	March 29, 1994	March 28, 2014
Takuya Tasso		Iwate	April 30, 2007	April 29, 2011
Keizo Hamada		Kagawa	September 5, 2010	September 4, 2014
Yūichirō Itō		Kagoshima	July 28, 2004	July 27, 2012
Yūji Kuroiwa		Kanagawa	April 23, 2011	April 22, 2015
Masanao Ozaki		Kōchi	December 7, 2007	December 6, 2011
Ikuo Kabashima		Kumamoto	April 16, 2008	April 15, 2012
Takatoshi Nishiwaki		Kyoto	April 16, 2018	April 15, 2022
Eikei Suzuki		Mie	April 21, 2011	April 20, 2015
Yoshihiro Murai		Miyagi	November 21, 2005	November 20, 2013
Shunji Kono		Miyazaki	January 21, 2011	January 20, 2015
Shuichi Abe		Nagano	September 1, 2010	August 31, 2014
Hōdō Nakamura		Nagasaki	March 2, 2010	March 1, 2014
Shōgo Arai		Nara	May 3, 2007	May 2, 2015
Hirohiko Izumida		Niigata	October 25, 2004	October 24, 2012
Katsusada Hirose		Ōita	April 28, 2003	April 27, 2015
Ryuta Ibaragi		Okayama	November 12, 2012	November 11, 2020
Hirokazu Nakaima		Okinawa	December 10, 2006	December 9, 2014
Tōru Hashimoto		Osaka	February 6, 2008	February 5, 2012
Yasushi Furukawa		Saga	April 23, 2003	April 22, 2015
Kiyoshi Ueda		Saitama	August 31, 2003	August 30, 2015
Yukiko Kada		Shiga	July 19, 2006	July 18, 2014
Zenbee Mizoguchi		Shimane	April 30, 2007	April 29, 2015
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, 2015
Yuriko Koike		Tokyo	July 31, 2016	July 30, 2020
Shinji Hirai		Tottori	April 13, 2007	April 12, 2015
Takakazu Ishii		Toyama	November 9, 2004	November 8, 2012
Yoshinobu Nisaka		Wakayama	December 17, 2006	December 16, 2014
Mieko Yoshimura		Yamagata	February 14, 2009	February 13, 2013
Tsugumasa Muraoka		Yamaguchi	February 25, 2014	February 22, 2018
Shōmei Yokouchi		Yamanashi	February 17, 2007	February 16, 2015

References

• "知事ファイル" (in Japanese). 全国知事会ホームページ. 2007-10-10. Archived from the original on 2014-01-28. Retrieved 2007-11-21.
• "List of Prefectural Governors" (PDF). 2009-09-26. Retrieved 2010-01-13.