Hitoshi Goto

{{Short description|Japanese politician (born 1957)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Hitoshi Gotō

| native_name = {{nobold|後藤 斎}}

| native_name_lang = ja

| image = Gotohitoshi.jpg

| caption = Goto in 2020

| office = Governor of Yamanashi Prefecture

| term_start = 17 February 2015

| term_end = 16 February 2019

| predecessor = Shōmei Yokouchi

| successor = Kotaro Nagasaki

| office1 = Member of the House of Representatives

| constituency1 = Southern Kanto PR (2005–2009)
Yamanashi 3rd (2009–2014)

| term_start1 = 11 September 2005

| term_end1 = 11 November 2014

| predecessor1 = Multi-member district

| successor1 = Constituency abolished

| constituency2 = Southern Kanto PR

| term_start2 = 25 June 2000

| term_end2 = 10 October 2003

| predecessor2 =

| successor2 =

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1957|7|22|df=y}}

| birth_place = Kōfu, Yamanashi, Japan

| death_date =

| death_place =

| alma_mater = Tohoku University

| party = DPFP (since 2025)

| otherparty = New Frontier
Democratic
Innovation

}}

{{nihongo|Hitoshi Goto|後藤 斎|Gotō Hitoshi|extra=born 22 July 1957}} is a Japanese politician who served as the governor of Yamanashi Prefecture. He was formerly a Democratic Party member in the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). He resigned from the Democratic Party and the Diet in November 2014 so that he could contest the January 2015 Yamanashi Gubernatorial election as an independent. A native of Kōfu and graduate of Tohoku University with a Bachelor of Economics, he worked at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries from 1980 to 1995.