Akiko Dōmoto | |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Office: | Governor of Chiba Prefecture |
Term Start: | 2001 |
Term End: | 2009 |
Birth Date: | July 31, 1932 |
Birth Place: | San Francisco, California, USA |
Alma Mater: | Tokyo Womans Christian University |
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]