Tatsuo Murayama

Tatsuo Murayama
村山達雄

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	(1915-02-08)8 February 1915 Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan
Died	20 May 2010(2010-05-20) (aged 95) Tokyo, Japan
Political party	Liberal Democratic Party
Alma mater	Tokyo Imperial University

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]Inthe 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]

Inthe 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]

Murayama died on 20 May 2010 at the age of 95.^[1]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Japanese ministers". Rulers. Retrieved 8 January 2013.

^ "Takeshita Reshuffles Cabinet". Chicago Tribune. Tokyo. New York Times News. 28 December 1988. Retrieved 8 January 2013.

^ ^a ^b ^c Junko Kato (1994). The Problem of Bureaucratic Rationality: Tax Politics in Japan. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. p. 262. ISBN 978-0-6910-3451-5.

^ J. A. A. Stockwin (2004). Collected Writings of J.A.A. Stockwin: The Politics and Political Environment of Japan. London: Japan Library. p. 346. ISBN 978-1-9033-5015-7.

^ 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.

^ Hiroaki Marugami (14 June 1984). "Diet member groups maneuver economy behind the scenes" (PDF). Japan Report. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 March 2016.

^ ^a ^b "Murayama is new finance minister". New Straits Times. 27 December 1988. Retrieved 8 January 2013.

^ C. Randall Henning (1994). Currencies and Politics in the United States, Germany, and Japan. Peterson Institute. p. 161. ISBN 978-0-88132-127-2.

^ Karl Schoenberger (28 December 1988). "Takeshita Shuffles Cabinet but Retains Key Ministers". Los Angeles Times. Tokyo. Retrieved 8 January 2013.

^ "Makiko Tanaka". RCRINC. Retrieved 8 January 2013.

^ "Mori set to dissolve Diet for elections on June 25". The Japan Times. 2 June 2000.

Political offices
Preceded by Hideo Bo	Minister of Finance 1977–1978	Succeeded by Ippei Kaneko
Preceded by Sunao Sonoda	Minister of Health and Welfare 1981	Succeeded by Motoharu Morishita
Preceded by Noboru Takeshita	Minister of Finance 1988–1989	Succeeded by Ryutaro Hashimoto

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