| Native Name: | 木村 俊夫 |
| Office2: | Chief Cabinet Secretary |
| Primeminister2: | Eisaku Satō |
| Term Start2: | 22 June 1967 |
| Term End2: | 30 November 1968 |
| Predecessor2: | Kenji Fukunaga |
| Successor2: | Shigeru Hori |
| Office1: | Head of the Economic Planning Agency |
| Primeminister1: | Eisaku Satō |
| Term Start1: | 5 July 1971 |
| Term End1: | 7 July 1972 |
| Predecessor1: | Ichiro Sato |
| Successor1: | Kiichi Arita |
| Office: | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| Primeminister: | Kakuei Tanaka |
| Term Start: | 16 July 1974 |
| Term End: | 9 December 1974 |
| Predecessor: | Masayoshi Ohira |
| Successor: | Kiichi Miyazawa |
| Birth Date: | 1909 1, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Tōin, Empire of Japan |
| Death Place: | Tokyo, Japan |
| Party: | Liberal Democratic Party |
| Alma Mater: | Tokyo Imperial University |
was a Japanese politician who served as foreign minister for six months in 1974.
Kimura was born into a politically active family on 15 January 1909.[1] His father and grandfather were both lawmakers.
Kimura was elected to the House of Representatives for 12 times as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). In addition, he served as chief cabinet secretary in the cabinet led by Prime Minister Eisaku Satō.[2] He was also chairman of the Parliamentarians' League for Japan-Palestine Friendship.[2] He organized Yasser Arafat's visit to Japan in 1981.[3]
His other posts include director-general of the economic planning agency and deputy chief cabinet secretary. In 1971, Kimura served as acting foreign minister.[4] He was appointed foreign minister by Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka in mid-July 1974, replacing Masayoshi Ohira in the post.[5] Kimura was in office for six months in 1974.[2] Kimura visited Africa in late October and early November 1974 which initiated a cooperation between African countries and Japan.[6] [7] He was the first senior Japanese government official to visit African countries.[8] His Africa visit included Ghana, Nigeria, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), Tanzania, and Egypt.[7] [9] Then Kimura became head of the LDP's Asian-African Studies Group in 1977.[10]
Kimura was married and had a daughter.[2] He died of a heart attack at a hospital in Tokyo on 1 December 1983 at age 74.[2]
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