Masanori Tanimoto

Japanese politician (born 1945)

谷本正憲

Masanori Tanimoto

Governor of Ishikawa PrefectureIn office
27 March 1994 – 28 March 2022Preceded byYōichi NakanishiSucceeded byHiroshi Hase Personal detailsBorn (1945-04-16) 16 April 1945 (age 79)
Nishiwaki, Hyōgo, JapanAlma materKyoto University

Masanori Tanimoto (谷本正憲, Tanimoto Masanori, born 16 April 1945) is a Japanese politician who was the governor of Ishikawa Prefecture between 1994 and 2022. After his first election, in 1994, he was reelected 6 times. In 2018 he won his seventh term of office.^[1]

Preceded by

Yōichi Nakanishi

Governor of Ishikawa Prefecture
1994–2022

Succeeded by

Hiroshi Hase

References

^ "Masanori Tanimoto rolls to seventh term in Ishikawa gubernatorial election, becoming Japan's longest-serving governor". Japan Times. 12 March 2018. Retrieved 26 June 2021.