| Office3: | Minister of Transport |
| Primeminister3: | Takeo Fukuda |
| Term Start3: | 14 December 1976 |
| Term End3: | 28 November 1977 |
| Predecessor3: | Hirohide Ishida |
| Successor3: | Kenji Fukunaga |
| Office1: | Minister of International Trade and Industry |
| Primeminister1: | Yasuhiro Nakasone Noboru Takeshita |
| Term Start1: | 22 July 1986 |
| Term End1: | 27 December 1988 |
| Predecessor1: | Michio Watanabe |
| Successor1: | Hiroshi Mitsuzuka |
| Office: | Speaker of the House of Representatives |
| Term Start: | 2 June 1989 |
| Term End: | 24 January 1990 |
| Predecessor: | Kenzaburo Hara |
| Successor: | Yoshio Sakurauchi |
| Office4: | Minister of Labour |
| Primeminister4: | Kakuei Tanaka |
| Term Start4: | 7 July 1972 |
| Term End4: | 22 December 1972 |
| Predecessor4: | Toshio Tsukahara |
| Successor4: | Tsunetaro Kato |
| Office5: | Member of the House of Representatives |
| Term Start5: | 27 February 1955 |
| Term End5: | 20 October 1996 |
| Birth Date: | 9 May 1924 |
| Birth Place: | Matsuzaka, Mie |
| Death Place: | Shibuya Tokyo |
| Party: | Liberal Democratic Party |
(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.
Tamura was born in Matsuzaka, Mie Prefecture, in 1924.[1] In 1950, he received a law degree from Keio University.[1]
Tamura was a member of the Liberal Democratic Party.[2] He was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1955.[1] [3] In the party Tamura was one of the leaders of the Interparty Relations Committee and belonged to the faction led by Kakuei Tanaka.[4]
He was appointed labour minister in 1972 and transport minister in 1976.[1] [5] As of 1975 he was the chairman of the Committee of Korean Affairs of the Afro-Asian Problems Study Group.[2] In July that year Tamura headed a delegation which visited North Korea and met with Korean ruler Kim Il Sung in Pyongyang.[2] 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] When he was in office he apologized to the United States for an export violation committed by a Japanese manufacturer.[8] In a reshuffle in December 1988 Hiroshi Mitsuzuka replaced Tamura as minister of international trade and industry.[9] 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.
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]
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