Tatsuo Murayama

Tatsuo Murayama (Japanese村 山 达 雄, born February 8, 1915 in Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture, Japan, † 20 May 2010) was a Japanese politician.

Biography

After school he studied between 1933 and 1937 Law at the Tokyo Imperial University and graduated with the state exam. Subsequently, he was promoted employees of the Ministry of Finance and in 1959 as Director General of the Office of Fiscal Affairs.

In 1963, he began his political career as a candidate of the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP) with the first election for members of the lower house ( Shūgiin ). As such, he was re-elected nine times and took until 1996 to fünfmandatigen third constituency Niigata, the constituency of Tanaka Kakuei. Within the LDP, he belonged to the faction of Kōchikai ( Ikeda faction ).

In 1971, he was for some time Parliamentary Secretary ( seimujikan; engl parlamentary Vice Minister. ) Of Justice under Prime Minister Eisaku Satō. In 1976 he was Chairman of the Parliamentary Auditing Committee of the House and also Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Political Research of the LDP.

On 28 November 1977, he was appointed Minister of Finance in the government of Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda. During this last until December 7, 1978 term, he sat down beside Fukuda also at the G7 summit in Bonn in 1978 in part. From May to November 1981 he was Minister for Social Affairs in the Cabinet Suzuki.

As part of a Government reshuffle, he was appointed on 24 December 1988 by Prime Minister Takeshita Noboru again as Minister of Finance and held this office in the subsequent Cabinet of Uno Sōsuke until 10 August 1989.

After the electoral reform of 1994 Murayama occurred in 1996 only on the proportional representation block Hokuriku Shin'etsu to; his home constituency, the new single constituency Niigata 5, took over Tanaka Makiko Kakueis daughter. To Shūgiin election 2000, Murayama withdrew from politics.

Family

Murayamas son Kozo Yamamoto (LDP, Kōchikai ) is also deputy. His second son, Takeuchi Tōru, was a senior official in the Ministry of Finance. Takashi Wada, the husband of his granddaughter, is Shūgiin MP for the Democratic Party.