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Akiko Dōmoto | |
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堂本 暁子 | |
Governor of Chiba Prefecture | |
In office 2001–2009 | |
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Born | San Francisco, California, USA | July 31, 1932
Alma mater | Tokyo Womans Christian University |
Akiko Dōmoto (堂本 暁子, Dōmoto Akiko, born July 31, 1932) was the governor of Chiba Prefecture in Japan from 2001 to 2009. A graduate of Tokyo Woman's Christian University, she was the first female governor of Chiba and the third in Japanese history. [1] She was first elected in 2001. In September 2001 she canceled a controversial plan to reclaim the Sanbanze wetlands as landfill. [2] Historian Jeff Kingston called this act "a major victory for activists." [3]