Masayoshi Takemura was a Japanese politician. Elected as a representative of the Liberal Democratic Party, in 1993 he broke away to form New Party Sakigake, before joining the newly formed Democratic Party of Japan in 1998. He served as Chief Cabinet Secretary and then finance minister in the Murayama Cabinet of the mid-1990s.
- Occupation
- politician, professor, bureaucrat
- Position held
- Minister of Finance, member of the House of Representatives of Japan, governor of Shiga Prefecture, Chief Cabinet Secretary
