Yoshitaka Murata

Third Realigned Koizumi Cabinet
(2005-10-31)
Secretary	Shinzō Abe
Internal Affairs	Heizō Takenaka
Justice	Seiken Sugiura
Foreign Affairs	Taro Aso
Finance	Sadakazu Tanigaki
Education	Kenji Kosaka
Health	Jirō Kawasaki
Agriculture	Shoichi Nakagawa
Economy	Toshihiro Nikai
Land	Kazuo Kitagawa
Environment	Yuriko Koike
Defense	Fukushiro Nukaga
Ministers of State	Tetsuo Kutsukake; Kaoru Yosano; Koki Chuma; Iwao Matsuda; Kuniko Inoguchi;

Yoshitaka Murata
Yoshitaka Murata
村田吉隆
	Official portrait, 2005
Chairman of the National Public Safety Commission
	In office; 27 September 2004 – 31 October 2005
Prime Minister	Junichiro Koizumi
Preceded by	Kiyoko Ono
Succeeded by	Tetsuo Kutsukake
Member of the House of Representatives
	In office; 18 February 1990 – 16 November 2012
Constituency	Okayama 2nd (1990–1996); Okayama 5th (1996–2009); Chūgoku PR (2009–2012)
Personal details
Born	30 July 1944 (age 80); Shizuoka, Japan
Political party	Liberal Democratic
Alma mater	Kyoto University

Yoshitaka Murata (村田吉隆, Murata Yoshitaka, born July 30, 1944) is a former Japanese politician who served as the Chairman of the National Public Safety Commission, the Minister of State for Disaster Management and the Minister of State for National Emergency Legislation in Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's Cabinet.

Born in the city of Shizuoka, Murata graduated from Faculty of Law, Kyoto University and joined the Ministry of Finance in 1968. In 1990, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time and, since September 2004 he has been on the present posts.

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