Fumiaki Matsumoto

Fumiaki Matsumoto
松本 文明
Member of the House of Representatives
Assumed office
December 21, 2012
ConstituencyTokyo PR
In office
September 12, 2005 – July 21, 2009
Preceded byAkira Nagatsuma
Succeeded byAkira Nagatsuma
ConstituencyTokyo-7th
Member of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly
In office
July 8, 1985 – 2001
Personal details
Born (1949-03-25) March 25, 1949 (age 75)
Kōzan, Sera, Hiroshima
Political partyLiberal Democratic
Alma materMeiji University

Fumiaki Matsumoto (松本 文明, Matsumoto Fumiaki, born March 25, 1949) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party and a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). Matsumoto served as a vice minister for the Cabinet Office between August 2017 and January 2018. He resigned from his post after being recorded in the Diet mocking the gravity of US military helicopter accidents in Okinawa.[1]

  1. ^ "Okinawa gaffe costs deputy minister his job before key poll". Asahi Shimbun. Archived from the original on 28 January 2018. Retrieved 28 January 2018.