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, he publicly called on Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to visit the city.

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