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Appointed

• Matsuda Michiyuki 1871-1875
• Koteda Yasusada 1875-1884
• Kojiro Iwasaki 1890-1891
• Orita Hiraochi 1897-1899
• Sada Suzuki 1902-1907
• Kaiichiro Suematsu 1923-1925
• Morio Takahashi 1925-1926
• Shinya Kurosaki 1926-1927
• Inada Syūichi 1945-1946

Elected

• Iwakichi Hattori 1947-1954
• Kotaro Mori 1954-1958
• Kyujiro Taniguchi 1958-1966
• Kinichiro Nozaki 1966-1974
• Masayoshi Takemura 1974-1986
• Minoru Inaba 1986-1998
• Yoshitsugu Kunimatsu 1998-2006
• Yukiko Kada 2006-2014
• Taizō Mikazuki 2014–present