The following is a list of governors of Ibaraki Prefecture.
The first governor of Ibaraki Prefecture was appointed by the Meiji government on July 13, 1871. Governors of Ibaraki were politically appointed from 1871 until the post-war period starting in 1945, after which they were popularly elected.
Appointed governors Yamaoka Tesshū 1871 Yamaguchi Tadasada 1872 Nomura Motosuke 1872 Toru Watanabe 1872-1873 Seki Shinpei 1873-1875 Nakayama Nobuyasu 1875-1877 Tatsutaro Nomura 1877-1880 Hitomi Katsutaro 1880-1885 Shima Isei 1885-1886 Sadanori Yasuda 1886-1891 Shoichiro Ishii 1891-1892 Nobuaki Makino 1892-1893 Chikaaki Takasaki 1893-1896 Egi Kazuyuki 1896-1897 Motohiro Onoda 1897-1898 Kiyoshi Honba 1898-1899 Fumi Kashiwada 1899-1900 Kono Chuzo 1900-1903 Teru Terahara 1903-1906 Ōtsuka Mitsugu 1906-1907 Mori Masataka 1907-1908 Keisuke Sakanaka 1912-1917 Yūichirō Chikaraishi 1917-1921 Genjiro Moriya 1921-1923 Shohei Fujinuma 1923-1924 Tsugino Daisaburo 1924-1925 Kaiichiro Suematsu 1925-1926 Kihachiro Ito 1926-1927 Nakayama Sanosuke 1927 Jiro Morioka 1927-1929 Shozo Ushijima 1929-1931 Tanaka Bujio 1931 Seikichi Kimishima 1931-1932 Abe Kashichi 1932-1935 Ando Kyoushirou 1935-1937 Nobuo Hayashi 1937-1938 Shigeru Hamaza 1938-1939 Tokitsugi Yoshinaga 1939-1941 Kanichi Naito 1941-1942 Tsujiyama Jihei 1942-1943 Sieve Yoshimi 1943-1944 Hisashi Imai 1944-1945 Masami Hashimoto 1945
Elected governors Yōji Tomosue 1945-1959 Nirō Iwakami 1959-1975 Fujio Takeuchi 1975-1993 Masaru Hashimoto 1993-2017 Kazuhiko Ōigawa 2017-
References
歴代ドットコム (2023-04-03). "茨城県 歴代知事". 歴代ドットコム (in Japanese). https://rekidai.com/ibaraki-chiji/ Retrieved 2024-09-08.