Tomoyoshi Watanabe

{{Short description|Japanese politician (born 1941)}}

{{No footnotes|date=December 2018}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Tomoyoshi Watanabe

| native_name = {{nobold|渡辺 具能}}

| native_name_lang = ja

| image = 21watanabe.jpg

| image_size = 220px

| caption = Official portrait, 2006

| office = Member of the House of Representatives

| constituency = Fukuoka 4th

| term_start = 20 October 1996

| term_end = 21 July 2009

| predecessor = Constituency established

| successor = Takaaki Koga

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1941|4|7|df=y}}

| birth_place = Sue, Fukuoka, Japan

| death_date =

| death_place =

| alma_mater = Kyushu University

| party = Liberal Democratic

| otherparty =

}}

{{nihongo|Tomoyoshi Watanabe|渡辺 具能|Watanabe Tomoyoshi|extra=born April 7, 1941}} is a retired Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, who served as a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Kasuya District, Fukuoka and graduate of Kyushu University, he worked at the Ministry of Transport from 1964 to 1994. After teaching at Fukuoka University, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1996.