Tadamori Ōshima

Tadamori Ōshima (Japanese: 大島 理森, Hepburn: Ōshima Tadamori, born September 6, 1946) is a former Japanese politician who served as the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan from 2015 to 2021. A member of the Liberal Democratic Party, he previously served as the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, and the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. He is affiliated to the revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi.^[1][2]

In this Japanese name, the surname is Ōshima.

Tadamori Ōshima
大島 理森
Official portrait, 2002
Speaker of the House of Representatives
In office 21 April 2015 – 14 October 2021
Monarchs	Akihito Naruhito
Deputy	Tatsuo Kawabata Hirotaka Akamatsu
Preceded by	Nobutaka Machimura
Succeeded by	Hiroyuki Hosoda
Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
In office 30 September 2002 – 1 April 2003
Prime Minister	Junichiro Koizumi
Preceded by	Tsutomu Takebe
Succeeded by	Yoshiyuki Kamei
Minister of Education and Director-General of the Science and Technology Agency
In office 4 July 2000 – 5 December 2000
Prime Minister	Yoshirō Mori
Preceded by	Hirofumi Nakasone
Succeeded by	Nobutaka Machimura
Director-General of the Environmental Agency
In office 8 August 1995 – 11 January 1996
Prime Minister	Tomiichi Murayama
Preceded by	Sohei Miyashita
Succeeded by	Sukio Iwatare
Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary
In office 2 February 1990 – 5 November 1991
Prime Minister	Toshiki Kaifu
Preceded by	Takao Fujimoto
Succeeded by	Motoji Kondo
Member of the House of Representatives
In office 19 December 1983 – 14 October 2021
Preceded by	Multi-member district
Succeeded by	Junichi Kanda
Constituency	Aomori 1st (1983–1996) Aomori 3rd (1996–2017) Aomori 2nd (2017–2021)
Member of the Aomori Prefectural Assembly
In office 23 April 1975 – June 1980
Constituency	Hachinohe City
Personal details
Born	(1946-09-06) 6 September 1946 (age 78) Hachinohe, Japan
Political party	Liberal Democratic
Alma mater	Keio University

Career

Ōshima with members of the Murayama Reshuffled Cabinet (at the Prime Minister's Official Residence on August 8, 1995)

A native of Hachinohe, Aomori and graduate of Keio University, he worked at the national newspaper Mainichi Shimbun from 1970 to 1974, and was elected to the Aomori Prefectural Assembly in 1975.^{[citation needed]} He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1983 after an unsuccessful run in 1980.

After his political career, he was appointed as a member of the Yokozuna Deliberation Council in January 2023.^[3]

Election history

Election	Age	District	Political party	Number of votes	election results
1980 Japanese general election	33	Aomori 1st district	LDP	63,958	lost
1983 Japanese general election	37	Aomori 1st district	LDP	98,275	winning
1986 Japanese general election	39	Aomori 1st district	LDP	100,653	winning
1990 Japanese general election	43	Aomori 1st district	LDP	84,302	winning
1993 Japanese general election	46	Aomori 1st district	LDP	102,921	winning
1996 Japanese general election	50	Aomori 3rd district	LDP	96,628	winning
2000 Japanese general election	53	Aomori 3rd district	LDP	93,602	winning
2003 Japanese general election	57	Aomori 3rd district	LDP	86,909	winning
2005 Japanese general election	59	Aomori 3rd district	LDP	90,925	winning
2009 Japanese general election	62	Aomori 3rd district	LDP	90,176	winning
2012 Japanese general election	66	Aomori 3rd district	LDP	74,946[4]	winning
2014 Japanese general election	68	Aomori 3rd district	LDP	59,280[5]	winning
2017 Japanese general election	71	Aomori 2nd district	LDP	133,545[6]	winning
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