Nobutaka Machimura

Nobutaka Machimura (町村 信孝, Machimura Nobutaka, 17 October 1944 – 1 June 2015) was a Japanese politician. He was a member of the House of Representatives of Japan and a member of the Liberal Democratic Party.^[1]

Nobutaka Machimura
町村 信孝
Speaker of the House of Representative of Japan
In office 24 December 2014 – 21 April 2015
Monarch	Akihito
Preceded by	Bunmei Ibuki
Succeeded by	Tadamori Oshima
Chief Cabinet Secretary
In office 26 September 2007 – 24 September 2008
Prime Minister	Yasuo Fukuda
Preceded by	Kaoru Yosano
Succeeded by	Takeo Kawamura
Minister for Foreign Affairs
In office 27 August 2007 – 26 September 2007
Prime Minister	Shinzō Abe
Preceded by	Tarō Asō
Succeeded by	Masahiko Kōmura
In office 27 September 2004 – 21 September 2005
Prime Minister	Junichiro Koizumi
Preceded by	Yoriko Kawaguchi
Succeeded by	Tarō Asō
Personal details
Born	(1944-10-17)17 October 1944 Numazu, Shizuoka, Japan
Died	1 June 2015(2015-06-01) (aged 70) Tokyo, Japan
Alma mater	University of Tokyo Wesleyan University

He was Chief Cabinet Secretary in the government of Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda from 2007 to 2008 and twice Minister for Foreign Affairs, in the cabinets of Junichiro Koizumi and Shinzō Abe. He resigned as the Speaker of the House of Representatives on April 21, 2015 after suffering from a stroke.^[2]

Machimure died from a cerebral infarction in Tokyo, aged 70.