Tōyama Atsuko (遠山 敦子, born December 10, 1938[citation needed]) is a Japanese former bureaucrat in the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport, Science, and Technology.

[1] After graduation in 1962 Toyama joined the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport, Science, and Technology.

After leaving government work, she became the ambassador to Turkey in June 1996[2] and the director of the National Museum of Western Art in April 2000.

Toyama was the Minister of Education, Culture, Sport, Science, and Technology in the first Koizumi Cabinet in 2001.

[7] Toyama also taught at the National Institution for Academic Degrees and Quality Enhancement of Higher Education and the International Research Center for Japanese Studies.