List of Speakers of the House of Councillors of Japan

List of Speakers of the House of Councillors.

Below is a list of office-holders from 1947:

Name Entered Office Left Office
Tsuneo Matsudaira May 20, 1947 November 14, 1949
Naotake Satō November 15, 1949 May 19, 1953
Yahachi Kawai May 19, 1953 April 3, 1956
Tsuruhei Matsuno April 3, 1956 August 6, 1962
Yūzō Shigemune August 6, 1962 July 17, 1971
Kenzō Konō July 17, 1971 July 3, 1977
Ken Yasui July 28, 1977 July 7, 1980
Masatoshi Tokunaga July 17, 1980 July 9, 1983
Mutsuo Kimura July 18, 1983 July 22, 1986
Masaaki Fujita July 22, 1986 September 30, 1988
Yoshihiro Tsuchiya September 30, 1988 October 4, 1991
Yūji Osada October 4, 1991 July 9, 1992
Bunbē Hara August 7, 1992 July 22, 1995
Jūrō Saitō August 4, 1995 October 19, 2000
Yutaka Inoue October 19, 2000 April 22, 2002
Hiroyuki Kurata April 22, 2002 July 30, 2004
Chikage Ōgi July 30, 2004 July 28, 2007
Satsuki Eda July 28, 2007 July 25, 2010
Takeo Nishioka July 30, 2010 November 5, 2011
Kenji Hirata November 14, 2011

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