Ichita Yamamoto

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Ichita Yamamoto
山本一太
Official portrait
Governor of Gunma Prefecture
Incumbent
Assumed office 28 July 2019
Preceded by	Masaaki Ōsawa
Member of the House of Councillors for Gunma's At-large district
In office 27 July 1995 – 4 July 2019
Preceded by	Giichi Tsunoda Tomio Yamamoto
Succeeded by	Masato Shimizu
Personal details
Born	(1958-01-24) 24 January 1958 (age 66) Kusatsu, Gunma, Japan
Political party	Independent
Other political affiliations	Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (1995–2019)
Alma mater	Chuo University Georgetown University

Ichita Yamamoto (山本 一太, Yamamoto Ichita, born 24 January 1958 in Kusatsu, Gunma) is a Japanese politician who has been the governor of Gunma Prefecture since July 2019. He was a neoconservative member of the House of Councillors in Japan. A member of the Liberal Democratic Party, he served as the Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs from 2012 to 2019 on the second Abe cabinet.^[1][2]