Tatsuo Murayama

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.

Career Murayama was a tax expert and helped the development of the tax overhaul bills. He worked in the ministry of finance as a bureaucrat and was the general director of the tax bureau. He served as the chairman of the LDP's tax system research council. He also led a fiscal expansion research committee of the party which later called the Murayama committee. He was part of the Suzuki and then Miyazawa faction within the LDP.

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. 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. On 9 August 1989, Ryutaro Hashimoto replaced Murayama as finance minister. He was not included in the LDP's proportional representation list for the 25 June 2000 general elections, and he retired from the politics.

Death Murayama died on 20 May 2010 at the age of 95.