Appointed governors Takatoshi Iwamura 1883-1890 Shiba Sankarasu 1898-1900 Kiichirō Kumagai 1914-1915 Ōta Masahiro 1915-1916 Jiro Yamagata 1922-1923 Korekiyo Otsuka 1927 Sukenari Yokoyama 1927 Nakano Kunikazu 1929-1931 Masasuke Kodama 1937-1938 Shunsuke Kondo 1938-1939 Narita Ichiro 1939-1940
Elected governors Wakio Shibano 1947-1955 Jujitsu Taya 1955-1963 Yōichi Nakanishi 1963-1994 Masanori Tanimoto 1994–2022 Hiroshi Hase 2022-2026 Yukiyoshi Yamano 2026-present