Takeaki Matsumoto

Takeaki Matsumoto

Takeaki Matsumoto ( Japanese. 松本 剛 明 , Matsumoto Takeaki ; born April 25, 1959 in Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician, member of the Shūgiin , the lower house of the Japanese parliament , for the 11th constituency of Hyōgo and former foreign minister . He is currently a member of the LDP and has been part of the Asō faction since 2017 .

Matsumoto, eldest son of the deputy and defense minister Jūrō Matsumoto and a graduate of the University of Tokyo , worked after his studies for the Nippon Kōgyō Ginkō and as his father's secretary. After an unsuccessful candidacy as a non-party in 1996 , he first moved into the Shūgiin in 2000 for the Democratic Party and has since been re-elected five times, in 2005 only through the Kinki proportional representation. In the Shūgiin he belonged, among other things, to the Finance Committee and the “Special Committee on Dealing with Armed Attacks” ( 武力 攻 撃 事態 等 へ の 対 処 に 関 す る 特別 委員会, Iraq Committee). From 2009 to 2010 he was chairman of the Shūgiin ( 衆議院 議院 運 営 委員会 ) committee of rules of procedure . In the Democratic Party he was chairman of the political research council from 2005 to 2007. In September 2010, after a cabinet reshuffle, he was appointed "Vice Minister" in the Foreign Ministry. In March 2011 he was appointed foreign minister in the Kan cabinet after his predecessor Seiji Maehara resigned over a donation affair and remained in office until September 2011.

Matsumoto left the party in the fall of 2015, when the Democratic Party and the Japanese Communist Party began to cooperate in opposition to the Abe government's security legislation. A year later, like Takako Suzuki , he joined the LDP faction. Shortly before the 2017 Shūgiin election , Matsumoto fully joined the LDP and was re-elected in Hyōgo 11 with 65.3% of the vote.

family

Matsumoto's great-great-grandfather was the first Prime Minister of Japan, Prince Hirobumi Itō , his great-grandfather Genshirō Nishi was envoy to Romania, his grandfather Keinosuke Fujii was envoy to Czechoslovakia, three of his uncles were ambassadors, his cousin Ichirō Fujisaki has been ambassador to the United States since 2008. The father of his father's first wife was Kiichirō Satō , head of Mitsui Ginkō and president of the Go Association Nihon Ki-in .

Web links

Commons : Takeaki Matsumoto  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official Website (Japanese)
• Foreign Ministry : Short biography (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 自 民 ・ 麻 生 派 に 松本 剛 明 元 外相 が 入会 細 田 、 額 賀 両 派 も 各 １ 人 加入 . In: Sankei News . November 9, 2017. Retrieved December 14, 2017 (Japanese). 
2. ↑ Takeaki Matsumoto new foreign minister. In: ORF . March 9, 2011, accessed March 9, 2011 . 
3. ↑ 民主 ・ 松本 剛 明 氏 の 離 党 届 で 兵 庫 県 政界 に 動 揺… 県 議 と 姫 路 市 議 が 離 党 で 同 調 . In: Sankei West. October 28, 2015. Retrieved March 21, 2017 (Japanese). 
4. ↑ 民 共 共 闘 路線 を 批判 し た 鈴木 貴子 、 松本 剛 明 両 氏 が 自 民 会 派 入 り . In: Sankei News . September 16, 2016. Retrieved March 21, 2017 (Japanese). 
5. ↑ 浅 尾 慶 一郎 氏 と 松本 剛 明 元 外相 、 自 民 に 入党 . In: Yomiuri Online . September 27, 2017. Retrieved December 14, 2017 (Japanese). 
6. ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun : Shūgiin 2017 election results, Hyōgo ( Memento of the original from December 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ kingendaikeizu.net: Takeaki Matsumoto family tree