Tadamori Ōshima

Tadamori Ōshima
大島 理森
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
Personal details
Born	6 September 1946 Hachinohe, Japan
Political party	Liberal Democratic Party
Alma mater	Keio University

Tadamori Ōshima (Japanese: 大島 理森, Hepburn: Ōshima Tadamori, born September 6, 1946) is a Japanese politician 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.

Career

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. 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.