Tatsuo Murayama

Tatsuo Murayama
Minister of Finance
In office 28 November 1977 – 8 December 1978
Prime Minister	Takeo Fukuda
Preceded by	Hideo Bo
Succeeded by	Ippei Kaneko
Minister of Finance
In office 27 December 1988 – 9 August 1989
Prime Minister	Noboru Takeshita
Preceded by	Noboru Takeshita
Succeeded by	Ryutaro Hashimoto
Minister of Health and Welfare
In office 18 May 1981 – 30 November 1981
Prime Minister	Zenkō Suzuki
Preceded by	Sunao Sonoda
Succeeded by	Motoharu Morishita
Personal details
Born	1915 Niigata Prefecture
Died	2010 (aged 94–95)
Political party	Liberal Democratic Party
Alma mater	Tokyo Imperial University

Tatsuo Murayama (1915 – 2010) was a Japanese politician who was a member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and finance minister for two times.

Early life

Tatsuo Murayama was born in 1915.^[1]

Career

Murayama was a tax expert and helped the development of the tax overhaul bills.^[2] He worked in the ministry of finance as a bureaucrat and was the general director of the tax bureau.^[3]

Then he joined the LDP and served as finance minister twice. Murayama replaced Hideo Bo as finance minister on 28 November 1977. Murayama's successor was Ippei Kaneko who was appointed on 8 December 1978.^[1] In the 1979 general elections, he won a seat in the Niigata constituency's second district.^[4] He served as the chairman of the LDP's tax system research council.^[5] He also led a fiscal expansion research committee of the party which later called the Murayama committee.^[3] He was part of the Suzuki and then Miyazawa faction within the LDP.^[3][6]

The second term of Murayama as finance minister was from 27 December 1988 to 9 August 1989 in the cabinet of Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita.^[7][8] He replaced Noboru Takeshita, who had served as acting finance minister since the resignation of Kiichi Miyazawa due to his alleged involvement in the Recruit stock scandal on 9 December 1988.^[7][9] On 9 August 1989, Ryutaro Hashimoto replaced Murayama as finance minister.^[1]

In the 1993 elections Murayama was elected to the lower house winning a seat from the Niigata constituency's third district.^[10] He was not included in the LDP's proportional representation list for the 25 June 2000 general elections, and he retired from the politics.^[11]

Death

Murayama died in 2010.^[1]

References

1. "Japanese ministers". Rulers. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
2. "Takeshita Reshuffles Cabinet". Chicago Tribune. Tokyo. New York Times News. 28 December 1988. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
3. Junko Kato (1994). The Problem of Bureaucratic Rationality: Tax Politics in Japan. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. p. 262. – via Questia (subscription required)
4. J. A. A. Stockwin (2004). Collected Writings of J.A.A. Stockwin: The Politics and Political Environment of Japan. London: Japan Library. p. 346. Retrieved 4 September 2013.  – via Questia (subscription required)
5. William W. Grimes (1 September 2002). Unmaking the Japanese Miracle: Macroeconomic Politics, 1985-2000. Cornell University Press. p. 178. ISBN 978-0-8014-8810-8. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
6. Marugami, Hiroaki (14 June 1984). "Diet member groups maneuver economy behind the scenes" (PDF). Japan Report. Retrieved 31 May 2013.
7. "Murayama is new finance minister". New Straits Times. 27 December 1988. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
8. C. Randall Henning (1994). Currencies and Politics in the United States, Germany, and Japan. Peterson Institute. p. 161. ISBN 978-0-88132-127-2. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
9. Schoenberger, Karl (28 December 1988). "Takeshita Shuffles Cabinet but Retains Key Ministers". Los Angeles Times. Tokyo. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
10. "Makiko Tanaka". RCRINC. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
11. "Mori set to dissolve Diet for elections on June 25". The Japan Times. 2 June 2000.