List of governors of Saitama Prefecture

Appointed governors Morihide Nomura 1871-1873 Tasuke Shirane 1873-1882 Kiyohide Yoshida 1882-1889 Eitaro Komatsubara 1889-1891 Kanichi Kubota 1891-1892 Tsunao Hayashi 1892-1894 Tomi Senketaka 1894-1897 Tadashi Munakata 1897–1898 Ogimachi Sanemasa 1899–1900 Yamada Shunzō 1900–1902 Shuichi Kinoshita 1902–1905 Marquis Okubo Toshi Takeshi 1905–1907 Shimada Gotaro 1907–1913 Soeda Keiichiro 1913–1914 Akira Sakaya 1914–1916 Tadahiko Okada 1916–1919 Horiuchi Hidetaro 1919–1923 Motoda Tashio 1923–1924 Saito Morikuni 1924–1927 Yashu 1927 Miyawaki Umekichi (1st time) 1927–1929 Shirane Takekai 1929 Hosokawa Chohei 1929–1930 Niwa Shichiro 1930–1931 Kozo Yamanaka 1931 Miyawaki Umekichi (2nd time) 1931–1932 Shigezo Fukushima 1932–1933 Hirose Hisatada 1933–1934 Ichisho Inuma 1934–1935 Saito Juri 1935–1936 Jitsuzo Kawanishi 1936–1938 Toki Ginjiro 1938–1941 Miyano Shozo 1941–1942 Toshio Otsu 1942–1943 Sudo Tetsushin 1943-1944 Ryuichi Fukumoto 1944-1945 Sekigaiyo Otoko 1945-1946 Jitzuzo Nishimura (1st time) 1946-1947

Elected governors Hitoshi Miyawaki 1947 Jitzuzo Nishimura (2nd time) 1947-1949 Yoshida Tadakazu 1949 (acting) Yuuichi Oosawa 1949-1956 Hiroshi Kurihara 1956-1972 Yawara Hata 1972–1992 Yoshihiko Tsuchiya 1992-2003 Nobuyuki Aoki (acting) 2003 Kiyoshi Ueda 2003–2019 Motohiro Ōno 2019-present

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