Takeaki Matsumoto

Takeaki Matsumoto (松本 剛明, Matsumoto Takeaki, born April 25, 1959) is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, who is the Minister of Foreign Affairs. 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.

Takeaki Matsumoto
松本 剛明
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
9 March 2011  2 September 2011
Prime MinisterNaoto Kan
Preceded byYukio Edano (Acting)
Succeeded byKōichirō Gemba
Personal details
Born (1959-04-25) 25 April 1959
Tokyo, Japan
Political partyDemocratic Party (1998–present)
Other political
affiliations
Independent (before 1998)
Alma materUniversity of Tokyo

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.

Ancestry

References

  • 政治家情報 〜松本 剛明〜. ザ・選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Archived from the original on 2007-12-03. Retrieved 2007-10-14. External link in |work= (help)
  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.
House of Representatives of Japan
Preceded by
Tōru Toida
Member of the House of Representatives for
Hyōgo 11th district

2000–2005
Succeeded by
Tōru Toida
New constituency Member of the House of Representatives for
Kinki

2005–2009
Constituency abolished
Preceded by
Tōru Toida
Member of the House of Representatives for
Hyōgo 11th district

2009–present
Incumbent
Party political offices
Preceded by
Yoshito Sengoku
Chair of Policy Research of the Democratic Party
2005–2007
Succeeded by
Masayuki Naoshima
Political offices
Preceded by
Kōichi Takemasa
Osamu Fujimura
Senior Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs
2010–2011
Served alongside: Yutaka Banno
Succeeded by
Yutaka Banno
Chiaki Takahashi
Preceded by
Yukio Edano
Acting
Minister of Foreign Affairs
2011
Succeeded by
Kōichirō Gemba


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