Masayoshi Takemura

Masayoshi Takemura
Masayoshi Takemura
武村正義
	Takemura in 1995
59th Minister of Finance
	In office; 30 June 1994 – 11 January 1996
Prime Minister	Tomiichi Murayama
Preceded by	Hirohisa Fujii
Succeeded by	Wataru Kubo
Chief Cabinet Secretary
	In office; 9 August 1993 – 28 April 1994
Prime Minister	Morihiro Hosokawa
Preceded by	Yōhei Kōno
Succeeded by	Hiroshi Kumagai
Member of the House of Representatives
	In office; 6 July 1986 – 2 June 2000
Preceded by	Multi-member district
Succeeded by	Akira Konishi
Constituency	Shiga at-large (1986–1996); Shiga 2nd (1996–2000)
Governor of Shiga Prefecture
	In office; 7 December 1974 – 16 June 1986
Preceded by	Kinichiro Nozaki
Succeeded by	Minoru Inaba
Mayor of Yōkaichi
	In office; April 1971 – October 1974
Preceded by	Nishizawa Kyuemon
Succeeded by	Masajiro Yamada
Personal details
Born	26 August 1934; Gamō, Shiga, Japan
Died	28 September 2022 (aged 88); Ōtsu, Shiga, Japan
Political party	DPJ (after 1997)
Other political; affiliations	LDP (before 1993); NPS (1993–1997);
Alma mater	Nagoya University; University 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.