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Mieko Yoshimura (吉村 美栄子, Yoshimura Mieko, born 18 May 1951) is governor of Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. She was elected on January 25, 2009. She defeated the sitting governor of Yamagata Prefecture, Hiroshi Saitō in an upset. A native of Ōe, Yamagata, she worked at a help-wanted advertising company before becoming a notary public for the city government of Yamagata. She soon became a member of Yamagata Prefecture's Education Committee before running for governor in 2008. She is Yamagata's first female governor and the sixth in Japanese history.
Yoshimura ran as an independent. She received the support of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and various Upper House members from the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). This race was seen as an early indicator of the strength of the two main parties in Japan before the 2009 Japanese general election. Yoshimura's rival, Governor Hiroshi Saito, was supported by both the New Komeito Party and the majority of the LDP.
Yoshimura was re-elected as Governor for the third time, gaining more than 70% of the vote.[1]
Aichi: Hideaki Ōmura Akita: Norihisa Satake Aomori: Sōichirō Miyashita Chiba: Toshihito Kumagai Ehime: Tokihiro Nakamura Fukui: Tatsuji Sugimoto Fukuoka: Seitaro Hattori Fukushima: Masao Uchibori Gifu: Hajime Furuta Gunma: Ichita Yamamoto Hiroshima: Hidehiko Yuzaki Hokkaidō: Naomichi Suzuki
Hyōgo: Motohiko Saitō Ibaraki: Kazuhiko Ōigawa Ishikawa: Hiroshi Hase Iwate: Takuya Tasso Kagawa: Toyohito Ikeda Kagoshima: Kōichi Shiota Kanagawa: Yūji Kuroiwa Kōchi: Seiji Hamada Kumamoto: Takashi Kimura Kyoto: Takatoshi Nishiwaki Mie: Katsuyuki Ichimi Miyagi: Yoshihiro Murai
Miyazaki: Shunji Kōno Nagano: Shuichi Abe Nagasaki: Kengo Oishi Nara: Makoto Yamashita Niigata: Hideyo Hanazumi Ōita: Kiichiro Satō Okayama: Ryuta Ibaragi Okinawa: Denny Tamaki Osaka: Hirofumi Yoshimura Saga: Yoshinori Yamaguchi Saitama: Motohiro Ōno Shiga: Taizō Mikazuki
Shimane: Tatsuya Maruyama Shizuoka: Yasutomo Suzuki Tochigi: Tomikazu Fukuda Tokushima: Masazumi Gotoda Tokyo: Yuriko Koike Tottori: Shinji Hirai Toyama: Hachiro Nitta Wakayama: Shūhei Kishimoto Yamagata: Mieko Yoshimura Yamaguchi: Tsugumasa Muraoka Yamanashi: Kotaro Nagasaki
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