State or region
Governor
- Japanese: 知事
How it's filled
- In plain words
- Elected
- Exact method
- Directly elected by the voters of the prefecture for a four-year term (Constitution of Japan Art. 93(2); Local Autonomy Act Art. 140; Public Offices Election Act). Re-election is not limited.
- Seats
- 1
Who holds it now
Yoshihiro Murai since November 2005
Report Source: ja.wikipedia.org,
checked
Next vote
- Must be held by November 2029 (no fixed date) General election
Sources
- pref.hiroshima.lg.jp · checked Hiroshima Prefectural Assembly secretariat, 都道府県議会における議員定数等の状況 (data at July 2025), read 2026-10-12: assembly seat counts; selection method per Constitution of Japan Art. 93(2) and Local Autonomy Act Arts. 93, 140. Fallback: secondary compilation (not the prefectures' own ordinances), because the 47 ordinances were not individually retrieved; cross-checked against Japanese Wikipedia assembly articles and Wikidata P1342. For: Governor
- ja.wikipedia.org · checked Official Japanese names of prefectures, assemblies and offices (Local Autonomy Act); governors' names as given in Japanese Wikipedia, 日本の都道府県知事一覧, read 2026-10-12. For: Governor in Japanese
- ja.wikipedia.org · checked Japanese Wikipedia, 日本の都道府県知事一覧 (current governors with start and term-expiry dates), read 2026-10-12: current governor and start of continuous tenure. Fallback: Wikipedia/Wikidata, because the National Governors' Association governor database was not retrievable as text; Wikidata head-of-government statements were stale for 6 prefectures (Ishikawa, Fukui, Shizuoka, Kagawa, Nagasaki, Okinawa) and were superseded by the Wikipedia list. For: Yoshihiro Murai, current term
- ja.wikipedia.org · checked Term-expiry date from Japanese Wikipedia, 日本の都道府県知事一覧 (governors) or Japan's four-year terms (Local Autonomy Act Arts. 93, 140), read 2026-10-12; unified-election date derived from the Act on Special Provisions for unified local elections (2nd Sunday of April, 2027-04-11); not yet officially announced. For: General election, November 20, 2029