Masayoshi Takemura

Masayoshi Takemura
武村 正義
Takemura in 1995
Minister of Finance
In office
30 June 1994 – 11 January 1996
Prime MinisterTomiichi Murayama
Preceded byHirohisa Fujii
Succeeded byWataru Kubo
Chief Cabinet Secretary
In office
9 August 1993 – 28 April 1994
Prime MinisterMorihiro Hosokawa
Preceded byYōhei Kōno
Succeeded byHiroshi Kumagai
Member of the House of Representatives
In office
6 July 1986 – 2 June 2000
Preceded byHiroyoshi Sezaki
Succeeded byAkira Konishi
ConstituencyShiga at-large (1986–1996)
Shiga 2nd (1996–2000)
Governor of Shiga Prefecture
In office
7 December 1974 – 16 June 1986
MonarchHirohito
Preceded byKinichiro Nozaki
Succeeded byMinoru Inaba
Mayor of Yōkaichi
In office
April 1971 – October 1974
Preceded byNishizawa Kyuemon
Succeeded byMasajiro Yamada
Personal details
Born(1934-08-26)26 August 1934
Died28 September 2022(2022-09-28) (aged 88)
PartyNew Party Sakigake
(1993–1998)
Other political
affiliations
  • LDP (before 1993)
  • DPJ (after 1998)
Alma materNagoya University
University of Tokyo
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Masayoshi Takemura (武村 正義, Takemura Masayoshi; 26 August 1934 – 28 September 2022) was a Japanese politician. Elected as a representative of the Liberal Democratic Party, in 1993 he broke away to form New Party Sakigake, before joining the newly formed Democratic Party of Japan in 1998. He served as Chief Cabinet Secretary and then finance minister in the Murayama Cabinet of the mid-1990s.