Takeaki Matsumoto
Takeaki Matsumoto | |
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松本 剛明 | |
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Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
In office 9 March 2011 – 2 September 2011 | |
Prime Minister | Naoto Kan |
Preceded by | Yukio Edano (Acting) |
Succeeded by | Kōichirō Gemba |
Personal details | |
Born | Tokyo, Japan | 25 April 1959
Political party | Liberal Democratic Party (2017–present) |
Other political affiliations | Independent (before 1998,2015–2017) Democratic Party of Japan(1998–2015) |
Alma mater | University of Tokyo |
Takeaki Matsumoto (松本 剛明, Matsumoto Takeaki, born April 25, 1959) is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party 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, , 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.
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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
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- ^ "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.
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