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- In office since February 2026
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- Japanese: 知事 Osaka Prefectural Government · since February 9, 2026 · Current mandate: re-elected 2026-02-08 in the re-run election after resigning in January 2026 (in office since 2019-04-08 before that); term runs to the original expiry in April 2027 (Public Offices Election Act Art. 259-2) Source: nga.gr.jp, checked (+2 more)
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- commons.wikimedia.org · checked photo: Wikidata P18 -> Wikimedia Commons, licence Public domain, credit アメリカ大使館 / retouched by User:DimensionalFusion / Wikimedia Commons, checked 2026-10-12 [world:jp-regions] For: Hirofumi Yoshimura
- wikidata.org · checked Wikidata item, read 2026-10-12: identifier and English name; governor identity from Japanese Wikipedia, 日本の都道府県知事一覧. For: Hirofumi Yoshimura
- 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: Hirofumi Yoshimura in Japanese, Governor in Japanese
- nga.gr.jp · checked National Governors' Association (全国知事会), 都道府県知事ファイル data, read 2026-10-12: inauguration_from of the current mandate (2026-02-09). For: Governor
- city.minoh.lg.jp · checked Minoh City Election Commission, 令和8年2月8日執行 大阪府知事選挙 開票結果, read 2026-10-12: Osaka gubernatorial election held 2026-02-08 with Hirofumi Yoshimura as a candidate; resignation letter submitted 2026-01-16 and re-run set for the general-election day (Sakigake/Kyodo, https://www.sakigake.jp/news/article/20260116CO0053/). start_date set to the election day, when the new mandate begins. For: Governor
- 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statements were stale for 6 prefectures (Ishikawa, Fukui, Shizuoka, Kagawa, Nagasaki, Okinawa) and were superseded by the Wikipedia list.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: Governor