Yoshiya Kakimoto

{{Short description|Japanese politician}}

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| name = Yoshiya Kakimoto

| native_name = {{nobold|柿本善也}}

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| office = Governor of Nara Prefecture

| term_start = 28 November 1991

| term_end = 2 May 2007

| predecessor = Shigeki Ueda

| successor = Shogo Arai

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1938|2|7}}

| birth_place = Yamatotakada, Nara, Japan

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| alma_mater = University of Tokyo

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Yoshiya Kakimoto is a Japanese politician. An independent, he served as the governor of Nara Prefecture from 1991 to 2007.

Prior to his career in electoral politics, Kakimoto was employed as director of the administrative affairs bureau in the Ministry of Home Affairs.[https://search.kanpoo.jp/r/19610613g61p2-2/ 官庁報告 文教]『官報 号外 第61号』 In April 1990, he became the Vice Governor of Nara Prefecture, and would ascend to the governorship in 1991, when Shigeki Ueda resigned from the office.

In 2009, he was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun.{{Cite web|url=http://www8.cao.go.jp/intro/kunsho/list_hp/k_01daiju.pdf|title=平成21年春の叙勲 旭日大綬章受章者|format=PDF|accessdate=2023-04-08|publisher=内閣府|date =2009-04-29|page=1|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090509041527/http://www8.cao.go.jp:80/intro/kunsho/list_hp/k_01daiju.pdf|archivedate=2009-05-09|url-status=dead}}