Tomio Okamura
Czech far-right politician
Tomio Okamura (岡村 富夫, Okamura Tomio; born 4 July 1972) is a Japanese-born Czech far-right politician and entrepreneur, serving as the president of the Chamber of Deputies since November 2025. Okamura was the founder of the political parties Dawn of Direct Democracy and Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD). He has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies since 2013. Okamura served in the Senate representing Zlín from 2012 to 2013.
Early life and background
Okamura was born in Tokyo, Japan. His mother Helena (née Holíková) is a native of Moravian Wallachia and moved to Tokyo in 1966 following her marriage to Okamura's half-Japanese, half-Korean father, Matsu Okamura. Tomio Okamura lived in Japan for the first ten years of his life before his mother returned with her sons to Czechoslovakia. He spent a part of his childhood in a children's home in Mašťov in the Ústí nad Labem Region, where he says he was bullied and had a stutter until the age of 22. After leaving primary school he went on to study chemistry.
During his childhood he worked as a popcorn seller at a cinema in Japan.
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