Shiro Kyota

{{short description|Palauan politician}}

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| office2 = Speaker of the House of Delegates of Palau

| term_start2 = January 1989

| term_end2 = November 1992

| predecessor2 = Santos Olikong

| successor2 = Surangel S. Whipps

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| children = Hersey Kyota

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Shiro Kyota is a Palauan politician and a former speaker of the House of Delegates of Palau from January 1989 to November 1992.

He was elected to Palau Legislature in 1960s{{cite web |author=United States Department of State |title=Report to the United Nations on the Administration of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, Transmitted by the United States of America |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MJ7ORiKSNlkC |language=en |date=1967}} and 1970s.{{cite web |title=Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands in 1974 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TYtHAQAAMAAJ |publisher=Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Office of United Nations Political Affairs |language=en}} He represented the State of Ngaremlengui.{{cite web |author=United States Department of State |title=Report to the United Nations on the Administration of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GQ-yq_xoxZkC |language=en |date=1977}} He run for a seat in the Senate of Palau in 1980, but lost.{{cite web |last1=Shuster |first1=Donald R. |title=Islands of Change In Palau: Church, School, and Elected Government, 1891-1981 |url=https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/c5d4b6a9-52c9-4942-9cc0-1a6b83f10e12/content |publisher=University of Hawaii}}

He became finance officer for the Palau government.{{cite book |title=Jahrbuch der Staatlichen Ethnographischen Sammlungen Sachsen. Band 43 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JOWpnQUpC1wC |publisher=LIT Verlag Münster | isbn=978-3-8258-1484-7 |language=de}} He won a seat in the House of Delegates of Palau in 1980s. He represented the state of Ngaremlengui. He was vice speaker of House of Delegates of Palau by 1985. He was elected speaker in 1989 and served until his retirement. He was succeeded as speaker by Surangel S. Whipps in January 1993.{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eNStfKu9C_YC |author=Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Office of United Nations Political Affairs|title = Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands - year 1992|date=1991 }}

Kyota is of half-Japanese heritage, being the son of a Palau-based Japanese trader and his Palauan wife.Deimel (2007), p. 225 He is the father of Hersey Kyota.