Yoshiya Kakimoto

Yoshiya Kakimoto
柿本善也
Governor of Nara Prefecture
In office
28 November 1991  2 May 2007
Preceded byShigeki Ueda
Succeeded byShogo Arai
Personal details
Born (1938-02-07) 7 February 1938
Yamatotakada, Nara, Japan
Alma materUniversity of Tokyo

Yoshiya Kakimoto is a Japanese politician. An independent, he served as the governor of Nara Prefecture from 1991 to 2007.

Prior to his career in electoral politics, Kakimoto was employed as director of the administrative affairs bureau in the Ministry of Home Affairs. In April 1990, he became the Vice Governor of Nara Prefecture, and would ascend to the governorship in 1991, when Shigeki Ueda resigned from the office.

In 2009, he was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun.