List of governors of Saitama Prefecture

Appointed governors

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  • 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 Masaya 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

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  • 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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