Junior Second Rank Nobutaka Machimura | |
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町村 信孝 | |
 Official portrait, 2005 | |
| Speaker of the House of Representatives | |
| In office 24 December 2014 – 21 April 2015 | |
| Monarch | Akihito |
| Deputy | Tatsuo Kawabata |
| Preceded by | Bunmei Ibuki |
| Succeeded by | Tadamori Oshima |
| Chief Cabinet Secretary | |
| In office 26 September 2007 – 24 September 2008 | |
| Prime Minister | Yasuo Fukuda |
| Preceded by | Kaoru Yosano |
| Succeeded by | Takeo Kawamura |
| Minister for Foreign Affairs | |
| In office 27 August 2007 – 26 September 2007 | |
| Prime Minister | Shinzō Abe |
| Preceded by | Tarō Asō |
| Succeeded by | Masahiko Kōmura |
| In office 27 September 2004 – 21 September 2005 | |
| Prime Minister | Junichiro Koizumi |
| Preceded by | Yoriko Kawaguchi |
| Succeeded by | Tarō Asō |
| Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology | |
| In office 6 January 2001 – 26 April 2001 | |
| Prime Minister | Yoshirō Mori |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Toyama Atsuko |
| Minister of Education, Science, Sports and Culture | |
| In office 5 December 2000 – 6 January 2001 | |
| Prime Minister | Yoshirō Mori |
| Preceded by | Tadamori Ōshima |
| Succeeded by | Office abolished |
| In office 11 September 1997 – 30 July 1998 | |
| Prime Minister | Ryutaro Hashimoto |
| Preceded by | Takashi Kosugi |
| Succeeded by | Akito Arima |
| Member of theHouse of Representatives | |
| In office 25 October 2010 – 1 June 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Chiyomi Kobayashi |
| Succeeded by | Yoshiaki Wada |
| Constituency | Hokkaido 5th |
| In office 19 December 1983 – 1 October 2010 | |
| Preceded by | Usaburō Chisaki III |
| Succeeded by | Hiroshi Imazu |
| Constituency | Hokkaido 1st (1983–1996) Hokkaido 5th (1996–2009) Hokkaido PR (2009–2010) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1944-10-17)17 October 1944 |
| Died | 1 June 2015(2015-06-01) (aged 70) Tokyo, Japan |
| Political party | Liberal Democratic |
| Children | 2 |
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| Relatives | Kinya Machimura (grandfather) Yoshiaki Wada (son-in-law) |
| Alma mater | University of Tokyo Wesleyan University |
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Nobutaka Machimura (町村 信孝,Machimura Nobutaka; 17 October 1944 – 1 June 2015) was a Japanese politician. He was a member of theHouse of Representatives of Japan and a member of theLiberal Democratic Party.[1] He wasChief Cabinet Secretary in the government of Prime MinisterYasuo Fukuda from 2007 to 2008 and twiceMinister for Foreign Affairs, in the cabinets ofJunichiro Koizumi andShinzō Abe. He resigned as theSpeaker of the House of Representatives on 21 April 2015 after suffering from a stroke.[2]
Machimura was born on 17 October 1944. His father wasKingo Machimura theGovernor of Hokkaido (1959–1971) and his grandfather wasKinya Machimura one of the founders of Hokkaido's dairy industry. Machimura attended theUniversity of Tokyo andWesleyan University in the United States.
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Machimura was elected to his first term in the House of Representatives in the December 1983 election, and he was re-elected in each election since. He became Minister of Education, Science, Sports and Culture on 11 September 1997, as part of Prime MinisterRyutaro Hashimoto's second cabinet, and became State Secretary for Foreign Affairs on 31 July 1998, inKeizō Obuchi's first cabinet. In March 2000, he became Special Advisor to the Prime Minister, serving under Obuchi and his successor,Yoshirō Mori. On 5 December 2000, he became Minister of Education, Science, Sports and Culture and Director-General of the Science and Technology Agency, before becoming Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology on 6 January 2001.[1]
He was theMinister for Foreign Affairs under Prime MinisterJunichiro Koizumi from 27 September 2004[1] to 31 October 2005. His goals included signing a treaty withRussia relations withChina andKorea form leader resolving a border dispute, and investigating the whereabouts ofJapanese hostages who were kidnapped byNorth Korean agents during the 1970s and 1980s. He was replaced byTarō Asō in thecabinet reshuffle that followed the 11 September 2005 election.
He was appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs again by Prime MinisterShinzō Abe on 27 August 2007.[3] In 2006, Machimura became chairman of theSeiwa Seisaku Kenkyūkai, the LDP's largest faction.[4] As such, on 14 September 2007, he backed Yasuo Fukuda's bid to become Abe's successor, following Abe's resignation on 12 September.[5] Since 2007, Machimura had co-chaired his faction alongsideHidenao Nakagawa andShūzen Tanigawa.[6]
In Fukuda's government, sworn in on 16 September 2007, Machimura became Chief Cabinet Secretary and State Minister in charge of abduction issues.[7] He was replaced byTakeo Kawamura in the cabinet of prime ministerTaro Aso, which was appointed on 24 September 2008.[8]
He was the vice president of theJapan-China Friendship Parliamentarians' Union.[citation needed]
On 18 December 2007, Machimura said at an official press conference that he believed in the existence ofUFOs.[9][10]
On 1 June 2015, he died after acerebral infarction at a hospital inTokyo.[11]
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| Preceded by Multi-member constituency | Representative forHokkaidō 1st district (multi-member) 1983–1996 | District eliminated |
| New constituency | Representative forHokkaidō 5th district 1996–2009 | Succeeded by Chiyomi Kobayashi |
| Preceded by N/A | Representative for theHokkaidō PR block 2009–2010 | Succeeded by N/A |
| Vacant Title last held by Chiyomi Kobayashi | Representative for Hokkaidō 5th district 2010–2015 | Incumbent |
| Preceded by | Speaker of theHouse of Representatives of Japan 2014–2015 | Succeeded by |
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| Preceded by | Chief Cabinet Secretary 2007–2008 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Minister of State for the Abduction Issue 2007–2008 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Minister for Foreign Affairs 2007 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Minister for Foreign Affairs 2004–2005 | Succeeded by |
| New creation | Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology 2001 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Minister of Education 1997–1998 2000–2001 | Succeeded by Akito Arima Office abolished |
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