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 Minister	Naoto Kan
Preceded by	Yukio Edano (Acting)
Succeeded by	Kōichirō Gemba
Personal details
Born	25 April 1959 Tokyo, Japan
Political party	Democratic Party (1998–present)
Other political affiliations	Independent (before 1998)
Alma mater	University 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

Ancestors of Takeaki Matsumoto
2. Jūrō Matsumoto 1. Takeaki Matsumoto 6. Keinosuke Fujii 3. Etsuko Fujii 14. Nishi Genshirō 7. Seiko Nishi 30. Itō Hirobumi 15. Asako Itō

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.

External links

• Official website in Japanese.