Governor
Naoki Inose (elected December 16, 2012) is the current governor of Tokyo. Before, he had been one of Tokyo's vice governors since 2007. His first term expires on December 15, 2016.
Past governors include:
- Ōki Takatō (1869)
- Yuri Kimimasa (1871–1872)
- Hachisuka Mochiaki (1890–1891), simultaneously mayor of Tokyo City (no independent administration until 1898)
- Tomita Tetsunosuke (1891–1893), simultaneously mayor of Tokyo City
- Seiichirō Yasui (1946–1947)
- elected governors
- Seiichirō Yasui (1947–1959)
- Ryōtarō Azuma (1959–1967)
- Ryōkichi Minobe (1967–1979)
- Shun'ichi Suzuki (1979–1995)
- Yukio Aoshima (1995 – April 23, 1999)
- Shintarō Ishihara (April 23, 1999 - October 25, 2012)
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Famous quotes containing the word governor:
“There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Three years ago, also, when the Sims tragedy was acted, I said to myself, There is such an officer, if not such a man, as the Governor of Massachusetts,—what has he been about the last fortnight? Has he had as much as he could do to keep on the fence during this moral earthquake?... He could at least have resigned himself into fame.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“President Lowell of Harvard appealed to students ‘to prepare themselves for such services as the Governor may call upon them to render.’ Dean Greenough organized an ‘emergency committee,’ and Coach Fisher was reported by the press as having declared, ‘To hell with football if men are needed.’”
—For the State of Massachusetts, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)