Appointed governors (1868-1947) After the Meiji Restoration and the establishment of a modern parliamentary system, governors were appointed rather than democratically elected.The following are the "Imperial" governors of Osaka Prefecture:Japan National Diet, House of Representatives. (1990). A hundred years of parliamentary system history: House of Peers and House of Councillors member directory (Vol. 11). Ministry of Finance Printing Bureau.
Daigo Tadamasa 1868 Gotō Shōjirō 1868-1870 Kimimasa Yuri 1870 Yotsutsuji Nishi 1870-1872 Norobu Watanabe 1872-1880 Tateno Tsuyoshi 1880-1889 Nishimura Sutezō 1889-1891 Yamada Nobumichi 1891-1895 Utsumi Tadakatsu 1895-1897 Tokito Konkyo 1897-1898 Mamoru Okimorikata 1898 Yoshihara Saburo 1898 Tadashini Kikuchi 1898-1902 Chikaaki Takasaki 1902-1911 Marques Okubo Toshi Takeshi 1912-1917 Harumichi Tanabe 1927-1928 Yūichirō Chikaraishi 1928-1929 Saito Munenori 1931-1932 Shinobu Agata 1932-1935 Minabe Choji 1941-1943
Governors after 1947 After the end of the Second World War and the introduction of the post-war Japanese constitution in 1947, governors were democratically elected. The following are the governors of Osaka Prefecture from 1947 to the present:(Japan National Diet, House of Representatives, 1990)National Governors' Association. (n.d.). List of governors. https://www.nga.gr.jp/english/1579746907866.html Bunzo Akama 1947-1959 Gisen Sato 1959-1971 Ryōichi Kuroda 1971-1979 Sakae Kishi 1979-1991 Kazuo Nakagawa 1991-1995 Knock Yokoyama 1995-1999 Fusae Ohta 2000-2008 Tōru Hashimoto 2008-2011 Ichirō Matsui 2011-2019 Hirofumi Yoshimura 2019-present
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