Gorō Yoshimura

was a Japanese politician, and governor of Nagano Prefecture, in central Japan. Yoshimura was a graduate of the law faculty at the University of Tokyo. Upon graduation, he worked in the Nagano Prefectural Government Office. In 1971, he became deputy governor, and was elevated to governor in 1980 when the governor at the time, Gon'ichirō Nishizawa, suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. Yoshimura served five full 4-year terms, until 26 October 2000. Yoshimura retired from politics in 2000.

Yoshimura served as one of the four Vice Presidents of the Nagano Olympic Organizing Committee from 1991 and the Nagano Paralympic Organizing Committee President, when the committees was founded, until its final meetings in February 1999. On 15 June 1991, at the 97th IOC session in Birmingham, United Kingdom, Yoshimura was part of the Nagano Olympic Bid committee, where he spoke followed by Hironoshin Furuhashi, president of the Japanese Olympic Committee. In 1998, Yoshimura received the Silver Badge of the Olympic Order.

Gubernatorial elections Gubernatorial Candidate, 26 October 1980 VoteGoro Yoshimura 586,304 Yoneo Mizuguchi 367,450

Gubernatorial Candidate, 21 October 1984 VoteGoro Yoshimura 772,850 Fumio Matsumura 151,843

Gubernatorial Candidate, 16 October 1988 VoteGoro Yoshimura 799,050 Fumio Matsumura 180,890

Gubernatorial Candidate, 18 October 1992 VoteGoro Yoshimura 736,038 Natsuo Kataoka 132,749

Gubernatorial Candidate, 20 October 1996 VoteGoro Yoshimura 905,272 Tomoki Nakako Kataoka 219,842 Shigeo Kusuma 42,378