Masayoshi Takemura

Masayoshi Takemura
武村 正義
Takemura in 1995
59th 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
Personal details
Born(1934-08-26)26 August 1934
Gamō District, Japan
Died28 September 2022(2022-09-28) (aged 88)
Political partyNew Party Sakigake (1993–1997)
Other political
affiliations
Alma materUniversity of Tokyo

Masayoshi Takemura (武村 正義, Takemura Masayoshi, 26 August 1934 – 28 September 2022)[1] 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 1997. He served as Chief Cabinet Secretary and then finance minister in the Murayama Cabinet of the mid-1990s.


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