Yūji Tsushima (津島 雄二, Tsushima Yūji, January 24, 1930 – October 25, 2023) was a Japanese politician who served in the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature) as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party.

During this time he attended Syracuse University in the United States as a part of the Fulbright Program.

[2] On July 19, 2009, after 33 consecutive years in office, Tsushima announced that he had no plan to run in the following election.

His son Jun Tsushima is currently a member of the House of Representatives, having won the Aomori 1st district seat previously held by his father in the 2012 general election.

[5] The other family members in the Diet were Bunji Tsushima, who served in both houses following a stint as Governor of Aomori Prefecture; Kichirō Tazawa, a member of the House of Representatives from 1960 to 1996 and defense minister in the cabinet of Zenko Suzuki; and Kyoichi Tsushima, a member of the House of Representatives since 2003 who served as a vice-minister in the cabinet of Yoshihiko Noda.