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Hajime Tamura

Hajime Tamura (田村 元, Tamura Hajime) (5 May 1924 – 1 November 2014) was a Japanese politician. He held different cabinet posts and served as the speaker of the House of Representatives.

Early life and education

Tamura was born in Matsuzaka, Mie Prefecture, in 1924.[1] In 1950, he received a law degree from Keio University.[1][2]

Career and activities

Tamura was a member of the Liberal Democratic Party.[3] He was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1955.[1][4] In the party Tamura was one of the leaders of the Interparty Relations Committee and belonged to the faction led by Kakuei Tanaka.[5]

He was appointed labour minister in 1972 and transport minister in 1976.[1][2] As of 1975 he was the chairman of the Committee of Korean Affairs of the Afro-Asian Problems Study Group.[3] In July that year Tamura headed a delegation which visited North Korea and met with Korean ruler Kim Il Sung in Pyongyang.[3] Tamura served as minister of international trade and industry from 1986 to 1988 in the cabinets led by Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone and then by Noboru Takeshita.[6][7][8] When he was in office he apologized to the United States for an export violation committed by a Japanese manufacturer.[9] In a reshuffle in December 1988 Hiroshi Mitsuzuka replaced Tamura as minister of international trade and industry.[8] Tamura became the speaker of the House of Representatives on 2 June 1989, replacing Kenzaburo Hara in the post.[10] Tamura's term ended on 24 January 1990 when Yoshio Sakurauchi was appointed speaker.[10]

Tamura, nicknamed the “wheeler-dealer” in political arena, retired from politics in 1996.[11]

Personal life and death

Tamura was married and has three daughters.[1] His nephew, Norihisa Tamura, served as the minister of health, labour, and welfare under Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. Tamura died of natural causes on 1 November 2014 at age 90.[11][12]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "A Perspective of Japanese/Canadian Economic Ties and Japan's Overseas Economic Policy". Empire Club of Canada. 20 June 1988. Retrieved 14 October 2013.
  2. ^ a b "Kakuei Tanaka. Chapter 5. Getting Rid of Kaifu". rcrinc.com. Archived from the original on 21 July 2003.
  3. ^ a b c Jung Hyun Shin (Spring–Summer 1980). "Japanese-North Korean Relations in the 1970s: From a Linkage. Politics Perspective". Asian Perspectives. 4 (1): 80. JSTOR 43737946.
  4. ^ "Norihisa Tamura". Kantei. Archived from the original on 17 October 2013. Retrieved 14 October 2013.
  5. ^ Yasumasa Kuroda (2005). The Core of Japanese Democracy Latent Interparty Politics. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 101. doi:10.1057/9781403978349. ISBN 978-1-4039-6901-9.
  6. ^ Clyde Haberman (7 November 1987). "Japan's New Cabinet Gets Old Face". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 October 2013.
  7. ^ "Japan's longest-serving trade minister". Xinhuanet. 30 September 2002. Archived from the original on 10 February 2015. Retrieved 14 October 2013.
  8. ^ a b Karl Schoenberger (28 December 1988). "Takeshita Shuffles Cabinet but Retains Key Ministers". Los Angeles Times. Tokyo. Retrieved 14 October 2013.
  9. ^ Michael Henderson (1994). All Her Paths Are Peace: Women Pioneers in Peacemaking. West Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press. p. 68. ISBN 978-1565490345.
  10. ^ a b "The National Diet of Japan" (PDF). Secretariat of the House of Representatives. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 October 2013. Retrieved 14 October 2013.
  11. ^ a b "Former Lower House speaker Tamura dies at 90". The Japan Times. Kyodo. 4 November 2014. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
  12. ^ "元衆院議長の田村元氏死去 当選１４回「政界仕掛け人". Asahi (in Japanese). 4 November 2014. Retrieved 22 January 2015.

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