Takeaki Matsumoto

Takeaki Matsumoto
松本 剛明
Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications
In office
14 December 2023 – 1 October 2024
Prime MinisterFumio Kishida
Preceded byJunji Suzuki
Succeeded bySeiichiro Murakami
In office
21 November 2022 – 13 September 2023
Prime MinisterFumio Kishida
Preceded byMinoru Terada
Succeeded byJunji Suzuki
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
9 March 2011 – 2 September 2011
Prime MinisterNaoto Kan
Preceded byYukio Edano (Acting)
Succeeded byKōichirō Gemba
Assumed office
31 August 2009
Preceded byTōru Toida
In office
26 June 2000 – 8 August 2005
Preceded byTōru Toida
Succeeded byTōru Toida
  • Member of the House of Representatives
  • for Kinki's PR block
In office
12 September 2005 – 21 July 2009
Personal details
Born (1959-04-25) 25 April 1959 (age 65)
Tokyo, Japan
Political partyLiberal Democratic Party (2017–present)
Other political
affiliations
Independent (before 1998, 2015–2017)
Democratic Party of Japan (1998–2015)
Alma materUniversity of Tokyo

Takeaki Matsumoto (松本 剛明, Matsumoto Takeaki, born April 25, 1959) is a Japanese politician who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs in 2011. A native of Tokyo and graduate of the University of Tokyo, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2000 after running unsuccessfully as an independent in 1996.

Matsumoto is a great-great-grandson of Itō Hirobumi, the first Prime Minister of Japan. Matsumoto's father, Juro Matsumoto, was a senior member of the Liberal Democratic Party and was the Minister of Defense from August 1989 to February 1990.[1] Matsumoto was selected as Foreign Minister of Japan in 2011 by Prime Minister Naoto Kan, after the resignation of his predecessor, Seiji Maehara, only two days before the March 11 earthquake and tsunami and subsequent Fukushima I nuclear disaster.

In 2015 Matsumoto left the DPJ citing the party's opposition to the 2015 Japanese military legislation and cooperation with the JCP. Before the 2017 elections he joined the Liberal Democratic Party.

In November 2022, Matsumoto was appointed by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to be Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications, replacing Minoru Terada who had resigned the previous day.[2]

  1. ^ "Matsumoto to be Japan's new foreign minister". Kyodo News. 2011-03-09. Archived from the original on 2011-06-29. Retrieved 2011-03-09.
  2. ^ "PM Kishida taps Takeaki Matsumoto as new internal affairs minister". Kyodo News. 21 November 2022. Retrieved 21 November 2022.