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

External links

• List of Japanese prefectural governors