Yoshiko Shiotani
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Yoshiko Shiotani (潮谷 義子) | |
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Governor of Kumamoto | |
In office April 16, 2000 – April 15, 2008 | |
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Born | April 5, 1939 |
Yoshiko Shiotani (潮谷 義子, Shiotani Yoshiko, born April 5, 1939) was the governor of Kumamoto Prefecture in Japan from 2001 to 2009. She was Kumamoto's first female governor and the second in Japanese history.
She is a member of the Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church.[1][2][3]
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- 1939 births
- Living people
- People from Saga Prefecture
- Governors of Kumamoto Prefecture
- Female Japanese governors
- Japanese Lutherans
- Japanese politician, 1930s birth stubs