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Yoshiko Shiotani (潮谷義子)
Shiotani in 2021.

Governor of Kumamoto
In office April 16, 2000 – April 15, 2008

Personal details
Born	(1939-04-05) April 5, 1939 (age 85)

Yoshiko Shiotani (潮谷義子, Shiotani Yoshiko, born April 5, 1939) was the governor of Kumamoto Prefecture in Japan from 2001 to 2009. She was Kumamoto's first female governor and the second in Japanese history.

She is a member of the Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church.^[1]^[2]^[3]