Shigeru Yoshida (吉田 茂, Yoshida Shigeru, September 2, 1885 – December 9, 1954), was bureaucrat and politician in the Empire of Japan, serving as a member of the Upper House of the Diet of Japan, Chief Cabinet Secretary, governor of Fukuoka Prefecture and twice as a cabinet minister.

He graduated from the Law Department of Tokyo Imperial University in 1911, and also passed the highest level of the civil service examinations.

From October 1934 to May 1935, Yoshida served as Chief Cabinet Secretary under the Okada administration and was also appointed to a seat on the Planning Board.

Under Tōjō’s successor, Kuniaki Koiso, Yoshida was recalled to Tokyo to serve as Minister of Munitions from December 1944 to April 1945.

[1] Following the end of World War II, Yoshida, along with all other members of the former Japanese government was purged from public office by the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers, but was not arrested.