Shōgo Arai

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Shōgo Arai (荒井正吾, Arai Shōgo, born January 18, 1945 in Yao, Osaka) is the governor of Nara Prefecture in Japan, first elected in 2007. A graduate of the University of Tokyo, he joined the Ministry of Transport, attending Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs as a ministry official. Leaving the ministry in 2001, he was elected to the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan (national legislature) for the first time in the same year.

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Current governors of prefectural-level subdivisions of Japan

Aichi: Hideaki Ōmura
Akita: Norihisa Satake
Aomori: Shingo Mimura
Chiba: Kensaku Morita
Ehime: Moriyuki Kato
Fukui: Issei Nishikawa
Fukuoka: Hiroshi Ogawa
Fukushima: Yūhei Satō
Gifu: Hajime Furuta
Gunma: Masaaki Ōsawa
Hiroshima: Hidehiko Yuzaki
Hokkaidō: Harumi Takahashi

Hyōgo: Toshizō Ido
Ibaraki: Masaru Hashimoto
Ishikawa: Masanori Tanimoto
Iwate: Takuya Tasso
Kagawa: Takeki Manabe
Kagoshima: Yūichirō Itō
Kanagawa: Shigefumi Matsuzawa
Kōchi: Masanao Ozaki
Kumamoto: Ikuo Kabashima
Kyoto: Keiji Yamada
Mie: Akihiko Noro
Miyagi: Yoshihiro Murai

Miyazaki: Hideo Higashikokubaru
Nagano: Jin Murai
Nagasaki: Genjirō Kaneko
Nara: Shōgo Arai
Niigata: Hirohiko Izumida
Ōita: Katsusada Hirose
Okayama: Ryuta Ibaragi
Okinawa: Hirokazu Nakaima
Osaka: Ichirō Matsui
Saga: Yasushi Furukawa
Saitama: Kiyoshi Ueda
Shiga: Yukiko Kada

Shimane: Zenbee Mizoguchi
Shizuoka: Heita Kawakatsu
Tochigi: Tomikazu Fukuda
Tokushima: Kamon Iizumi
Tokyo: Naoki Inose
Tottori: Shinji Hirai
Toyama: Takakazu Ishii
Wakayama: Yoshinobu Nisaka
Yamagata: Mieko Yoshimura
Yamaguchi: Shigetarō Yamamoto
Yamanashi: Shōmei Yokouchi

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