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, 2019
Norihisa Satake		Akita	April 20, 2009	April 19, 2017
Shingo Mimura		Aomori	June 29, 2003	June 28, 2019
Kensaku Morita		Chiba	April 5, 2009	April 4, 2017
Tokihiro Nakamura		Ehime	December 1, 2010	November 30, 2018
Issei Nishikawa		Fukui	April 23, 2003	April 22, 2019
Hiroshi Ogawa		Fukuoka	April 23, 2011	April 22, 2019
Masao Uchibori		Fukushima	November 12, 2014	November 11, 2018
Hajime Furuta		Gifu	February 6, 2005	February 5, 2017
Masaaki Ōsawa		Gunma	July 28, 2007	July 27, 2019
Hidehiko Yuzaki		Hiroshima	November 29, 2009	November 28, 2017
Harumi Takahashi		Hokkaidō	April 23, 2003	April 22, 2019
Toshizō Ido		Hyōgo	August 1, 2001	July 31, 2017
Masaru Hashimoto		Ibaraki	September 26, 1993	September 25, 2017
Masanori Tanimoto		Ishikawa	March 29, 1994	March 26, 2018
Takuya Tasso		Iwate	April 30, 2007	September 10, 2019
Keizō Hamada		Kagawa	September 5, 2010	September 4, 2018
Yūichirō Itō		Kagoshima	July 28, 2004	July 27, 2016
Yūji Kuroiwa		Kanagawa	April 23, 2011	April 22, 2019
Masanao Ozaki		Kōchi	December 7, 2007	December 6, 2019
Ikuo Kabashima		Kumamoto	April 16, 2008	April 15, 2016
Keiji Yamada		Kyoto	April 16, 2002	April 15, 2018
Eikei Suzuki		Mie	April 21, 2011	April 20, 2019
Yoshihiro Murai		Miyagi	November 21, 2005	November 20, 2017
Shunji Kōno		Miyazaki	January 21, 2011	January 20, 2019
Shuichi Abe		Nagano	September 1, 2010	August 31, 2018
Hōdō Nakamura		Nagasaki	March 2, 2010	March 1, 2018
Shōgo Arai		Nara	May 3, 2007	May 2, 2019
Hirohiko Izumida		Niigata	October 25, 2004	October 24, 2016
Katsusada Hirose		Ōita	April 28, 2003	April 27, 2019
Ryūta Ibaragi		Okayama	November 12, 2012	November 11, 2016
Takeshi Onaga		Okinawa	December 10, 2014	December 9, 2018
Ichirō Matsui		Ōsaka	November 28, 2011	November 26, 2019
Yoshinori Yamaguchi		Saga	January 14, 2015	January 10, 2019
Kiyoshi Ueda		Saitama	August 31, 2003	August 30, 2019
Mikazuki Taizō		Shiga	July 20, 2014	July 19, 2018
Zenbee Mizoguchi		Shimane	April 30, 2007	April 29, 2019
Heita Kawakatsu		Shizuoka	July 5, 2009	July 4, 2017
Tomikazu Fukuda		Tochigi	December 9, 2004	December 8, 2016
Kamon Iizumi		Tokushima	May 18, 2003	May 17, 2019
Yōichi Masuzoe		Tokyo	February 11, 2014	February 8, 2018
Shinji Hirai		Tottori	April 13, 2007	April 12, 2019
Takakazu Ishii		Toyama	November 9, 2004	November 8, 2016
Yoshinobu Nisaka		Wakayama	December 17, 2006	December 16, 2018
Mieko Yoshimura		Yamagata	February 14, 2009	February 13, 2017
Tsugumasa Muraoka		Yamaguchi	February 25, 2014	February 22, 2018
Hitoshi Gotō		Yamanashi	February 17, 2015	February 16, 2019

References

• 知事ファイル (in Japanese). 全国知事会ホームページ. 2015-12-07. Retrieved 2016-01-11.
• "List of Prefectural Governors". English / 全国知事会ホームページ. 2015-06-27. Retrieved 2016-01-11.