Tatsuo Murayama (村山 達雄, Murayama Tatsuo, 8 February 1915 – 20 May 2010) was a Japanese politician who was a member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and finance minister for two times.
[2] He worked in the ministry of finance as a bureaucrat and was the general director of the tax bureau.
[1] In the 1979 general elections, he won a seat in the Niigata constituency's second district.
[7][8] 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.
[10] He was not included in the LDP's proportional representation list for the 25 June 2000 general elections, and he retired from the politics.