The Satake family had formerly served as daimyo (feudal lord) of Kubota Domain.

After graduating from Tohoku University, he joined the Akita Prefectural Office in 1972 and held a series of positions until 1997.

During his time in office, he was also the chairman and vice-chairman of the National Mayors Association of Japan and the Governmental Select Committee on Taxation.

[1] He owns a Siberian cat named Mir, given to him by Russian president Vladimir Putin.

[2] Aichi: Hideaki Ōmura Akita: Norihisa Satake Aomori: Sōichirō Miyashita Chiba: Toshihito Kumagai Ehime: Tokihiro Nakamura Fukui: Tatsuji Sugimoto Fukuoka: Seitaro Hattori Fukushima: Masao Uchibori Gifu: Hajime Furuta Gunma: Ichita Yamamoto Hiroshima: Hidehiko Yuzaki Hokkaidō: Naomichi Suzuki Hyōgo: Motohiko Saitō Ibaraki: Kazuhiko Ōigawa Ishikawa: Hiroshi Hase Iwate: Takuya Tasso Kagawa: Toyohito Ikeda Kagoshima: Kōichi Shiota Kanagawa: Yūji Kuroiwa Kōchi: Seiji Hamada Kumamoto: Takashi Kimura Kyoto: Takatoshi Nishiwaki Mie: Katsuyuki Ichimi Miyagi: Yoshihiro Murai Miyazaki: Shunji Kōno Nagano: Shuichi Abe Nagasaki: Kengo Oishi Nara: Makoto Yamashita Niigata: Hideyo Hanazumi Ōita: Kiichiro Satō Okayama: Ryuta Ibaragi Okinawa: Denny Tamaki Osaka: Hirofumi Yoshimura Saga: Yoshinori Yamaguchi Saitama: Motohiro Ōno Shiga: Taizō Mikazuki Shimane: Tatsuya Maruyama Shizuoka: Yasutomo Suzuki Tochigi: Tomikazu Fukuda Tokushima: Masazumi Gotoda Tokyo: Yuriko Koike Tottori: Shinji Hirai Toyama: Hachiro Nitta Wakayama: Shūhei Kishimoto Yamagata: Mieko Yoshimura Yamaguchi: Tsugumasa Muraoka Yamanashi: Kotaro Nagasaki