1999 Tokyo gubernatorial election

{{Infobox election

| election_name = 1999 Tokyo gubernatorial election

| country = Tokyo

| type = presidential

| ongoing = no

| previous_election = 1995 Tokyo gubernatorial election

| previous_year = 1995

| next_election = 2003 Tokyo gubernatorial election

| next_year = 2003

| election_date = April 11, 1999

| turnout = 57.87%

| image_size = x150px

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| candidate1 = Shintarō Ishihara

| party1 = Independent

| popular_vote1 = 1,664,558

| percentage1 = 30.47%

| image2 = {{CSS image crop|Image =Kunio Hatoyama 200809.jpg|bSize = 120|cWidth = 120|cHeight = 150|oTop = 0|oLeft = 0}}

| candidate2 = Kunio Hatoyama

| party2 = Independent

| popular_vote2 = 851,130

| percentage2 = 15.58%

| image3 = {{CSS image crop|Image =Yoichi Masuzoe 2007 (cropped).jpg|bSize = 120|cWidth = 120|cHeight = 150|oTop = 0|oLeft = 0}}

| candidate3 = Yōichi Masuzoe

| party3 = Independent

| popular_vote3 = 836,104

| percentage3 = 15.30%

| title = Governor

| before_election = Yukio Aoshima

| before_party = Independent

| after_election = Shintarō Ishihara

| after_party = Independent

}}

The 1999 Tokyo gubernatorial election were held on April 11, 1999 as part of the 14th unified local elections. Incumbent Yukio Aoshima announced that he would not seek re-election. All major candidates ran as independents but several were supported by major parties. The Liberal Democratic Party, led by Secretary General Yoshiro Mori, supported Yasushi Akashi as a compromise with coalition partner New Komeito, but local LDP legislators divided their support between candidates Ishihara, Masuzoe and Kakizawa.

Author and former Diet member Shintaro Ishihara, who had previously come in second in the 1975 gubernatorial election against incumbent governor Ryokichi Minobe,{{cite book|author1-link=Gary Allinson|last=Allinson|first=Gary D.|title=Suburban Tokyo: A Comparative Study in Politics and Social Change|year=1979|publisher=University of California Press|page=185|isbn=9780520028425|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nc455-BeD80C&q=1975%20tokyo%20election&pg=PA185}} won the election on a nationalist platform, saying that he would have the United States return Yokota Air Base to Japan and clarify its position on Japan's ownership of the Senkaku Islands. Akashi came in fourth, the poorest showing by an LDP-supported candidate in Tokyo history.{{cite news|last=Kristof|first=Nicholas|title=Nationalist Critical of U.S. Air Base Is Elected Governor of Tokyo|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/12/world/nationalist-critical-of-us-air-base-is-elected-governor-of-tokyo.html|accessdate=8 January 2014|newspaper=The New York Times|date=12 April 1999}}