Toranosuke Takeshita

Toranosuke Takeshita (竹下 虎之助 Takeshita Toranosuke, August 6, 1924 – December 16, 2008) was the Governor of Hiroshima Prefecture from 1981 to 1993.

In August 1990, while participating in a symposium in Hiroshima, publicly called on Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to visit Hiroshima .

Preceded by
Hiroshi Miyazawa
Governor of Hiroshima Prefecture
1981–1993
Succeeded by
Yūzan Fujita
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