Ichita Yamamoto

Ichita Yamamoto
山本一太
Official portrait, 2019
Governor of Gunma Prefecture
Assumed office
28 July 2019
MonarchNaruhito
Preceded byMasaaki Ōsawa
Member of the House of Councillors
In office
27 July 1995  4 July 2019
Preceded byTomio Yamamoto
Succeeded byMasato Shimizu
ConstituencyGunma at-large
Personal details
Born (1958-01-24) 24 January 1958
Kusatsu, Gunma, Japan
Political partyIndependent (since 2019)
Other political
affiliations
LDP (1995–2019)
Alma materChuo University
Georgetown University

Ichita Yamamoto (山本 一太, Yamamoto Ichita, born 24 January 1958 in Kusatsu, Gunma) is a Japanese politician who has been the governor of Gunma Prefecture since July 2019. He was a neoconservative member of the House of Councillors in Japan. A member of the Liberal Democratic Party, he served as the Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs from 2012 to 2019 on the second Abe cabinet.