Hitoshi Gotō
Native name後藤 斎
OfficeMember of the House of Councillors
ConstituencyYamanashi at-large
Term start29 July 2025
PredecessorHiroshi Moriya
Office 1Governor of Yamanashi Prefecture
Monarch 1Akihito
Term start 117 February 2015
Term end 116 February 2019
Predecessor 1Shōmei Yokouchi
Successor 1Kotaro Nagasaki
Office 2
Constituency 2PR block (2005–2009)
Yamanashi 3rd (2009–2014)
Term start 211 September 2005
Term end 211 November 2014
Predecessor 2Multi-member district
Successor 2Constituency abolished
Constituency 3PR block
Term start 325 June 2000
Term end 310 October 2003
Birth date22 July 1957 (age 69)
Birth placeKōfu, Yamanashi, Japan
Alma materTohoku University
PartyDPP (since 2025)
Other partyNFP (1996–1998)
DPJ (1998–2014)
Independent (2014–2022)
JIP (2022–2025)

Hitoshi Goto (後藤 斎, Gotō Hitoshi) is a Japanese politician who served as the governor of Yamanashi Prefecture. He was formerly a Democratic Party member in the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). He resigned from the Democratic Party and the Diet in November 2014 so that he could contest the January 2015 Yamanashi Gubernatorial election as an independent. A native of Kōfu and graduate of Tohoku University with a Bachelor of Economics, he worked at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries from 1980 to 1995.

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