Tadamori Oshima

Tadamori Ōshima
大島 理森
Speaker of the House of Representative
of Japan
Incumbent
Assumed office
21 April 2015
Monarch Akihito
Preceded by Nobutaka Machimura
Personal details
Born 6 September 1946
Hachinohe, Aomori, Japan
Alma mater Keio University

Tadamori Ōshima (大島 理森  Ōshima Tadamori, born September 6, 1946) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). 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 assembly of Aomori Prefecture in 1975. He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1983 after an unsuccessful run in 1980. He is the current Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan.

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Political offices
Preceded by
Sohei Miyashita
Director-General of the Environment Agency
1995–1996
Succeeded by
Sukio Iwatare
Preceded by
Hirofumi Nakasone
Director-General of the Science and Technology Agency
2000
Succeeded by
Nobutaka Machimura
Preceded by
Hirofumi Nakasone
Minister of Education
2000
Succeeded by
Nobutaka Machimura
Preceded by
Tsutomu Takebe
Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
2002–2003
Succeeded by
Yoshiyuki Kamei
Party political offices
Preceded by
Makoto Koga
Toshihiro Nikai
Chairman of the LDP Diet Affairs Committee
2000–2002
2007–2009
Succeeded by
Hidenao Nakagawa
Jirō Kawasaki
Preceded by
Hiroyuki Hosoda
Secretary General of the LDP
2009–2010
Succeeded by
Nobuteru Ishihara
Preceded by
Taku Yamasaki (in 2003)
Vice President of the LDP
2010-2012
Succeeded by
Masahiko Kōmura
Incumbent
House of Representatives of Japan
New district Representative for Aomori's 3rd district
1996 –
Incumbent
Preceded by
Shūichi Takenaka
Masami Tanabu
Haremasa Seki
Yūji Tsushima
Representative for Aomori's 1st district (multi-member)
1983–1996
Served alongside: Masami Tanabu, Yūji Tsushima, Shūichi Takenaka, Haremasa Seki, Osamu Imamura
District eliminated
Preceded by
Nobutaka Machimura
Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan
2015–present
Incumbent