Toranosuke Takeshita
Appearance
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.[1]
In August 1990, while participating in a symposium in Hiroshima, he publicly called on Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to visit Hiroshima.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Zwigenberg, Ran (15 September 2014). Hiroshima. Cambridge University Press. p. 292. ISBN 9781107071278.
- ^ "In expectation of President Gorbachev's first visit to Hiroshima". Archived from the original on 28 April 2005. Retrieved 24 August 2024.