Goro Yoshimura

{{Short description|Japanese politician (born 1926)}}

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| name = Goro Yoshimura

| native_name = {{nobold|吉村　午良}}

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| office = Governor of Nagano Prefecture{{cite web |title=長野県の歴代知事 (trans. Governors of Nagano) |url=https://www.pref.nagano.lg.jp/hisho/kensei/gaiyo/chiji/rekidai.html |website=Nagano Prefecture |publisher=Nagano Prefecture |accessdate=26 June 2019}}

| term_start = October 26, 1980{{cite web |title=長野県の歴代知事 (trans. Governors of Nagano) |url=https://www.pref.nagano.lg.jp/hisho/kensei/gaiyo/chiji/rekidai.html |website=Nagano Prefecture |publisher=Nagano Prefecture |accessdate=26 June 2019}}

| term_end = October 25, 2000{{cite web |title=歴代長野市長 (trans. Mayors of Nagano City) |url=https://www.city.nagano.nagano.jp/site/shicyo/18773.html |website=Nagano City |publisher=Nagano City Official Website |accessdate=8 June 2019}}

| predecessor = Gon'ichirō Nishizawa

| successor = Yasuo Tanaka

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1926|2|13|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan

| death_date = May, 2007

| death_place = Nagano, Nagano

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| alma_mater = Tokyo University

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{{nihongo|Goro Yoshimura|吉村 午良|Yoshimura Gorou}} (born February 13, 1926) was a Japanese politician, and the former governor of Nagano Prefecture, in central Japan. Yoshimura was a graduate of the law faculty at the University of Tokyo.{{cite web |last1=Yawata |first1=Kazuo |title=困った変人知事と知事選挙をめぐる珍事の数々[Transl.: The troubled governors...] |url=http://agora-web.jp/archives/2035642.html |publisher=Agora |accessdate=30 June 2019}} Upon graduation, he worked in the Nagano Prefectural Government Office.{{cite web |last1=Yawata |first1=Kazuo |title=困った変人知事と知事選挙をめぐる珍事の数々[Transl.: The troubled governors...] |url=http://agora-web.jp/archives/2035642.html |publisher=Agora |accessdate=30 June 2019}} In 1971, he became deputy governor,{{cite web |last1=Yawata |first1=Kazuo |title=困った変人知事と知事選挙をめぐる珍事の数々[Transl.: The troubled governors...] |url=http://agora-web.jp/archives/2035642.html |publisher=Agora |accessdate=30 June 2019}} and was elevated to governor in 1980 when the governor at the time, Gon'ichirō Nishizawa, suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. Yoshimura served five full 4-year terms, until October 26, 2000.{{cite web |title=歴代長野市長 (trans. Mayors of Nagano City) |url=https://www.city.nagano.nagano.jp/site/shicyo/18773.html |website=Nagano City |publisher=Nagano City Official Website |accessdate=8 June 2019}} Yoshimura retired from politics in 2000.

Yoshimura served as one of the four Vice Presidents of the Nagano Olympic Organizing Committee from 1991 and the Nagano Paralympic Organizing Committee President, when the committees was founded, until its final meetings in February 1999.{{harvsp|Hanazawa|1999|p=46}} At the June 15, 1991 97th IOC session in Birmingham, United Kingdom, Yoshimura was part of the Nagano Olympic Bid committee, where he spoke followed by Hironoshin Furuhashi, president of the Japanese Olympic Committee.{{harvsp|Hanazawa|1999|p=34}} In 1998, Yoshimura received the Silver Badge of the Olympic Order.{{cite web |title=JOCについて、オリンピック・オーダー [Transl.: About the JOC, the Olympic Order] |url=https://www.joc.or.jp/about/order/ |publisher=Japanese Olympic Committee |accessdate=29 June 2019}}