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Takeaki Matsumoto
Takeaki Matsumoto
松本剛明
	Official portrait, 2012
Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications
	In office; 14 December 2023 – 1 October 2024
Prime Minister	Fumio Kishida
Preceded by	Junji Suzuki
Succeeded by	Seiichiro Murakami
	In office; 21 November 2022 – 13 September 2023
Prime Minister	Fumio Kishida
Preceded by	Minoru Terada
Succeeded by	Junji Suzuki
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
Member of the House of Representatives
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 26 June 2000
Preceded by	Tōru Toida
Constituency	Hyōgo 11th (2000–2005; 2009–present); Kinki PR (2005–2009)
Personal details
Born	25 April 1959 (age 65); Tokyo, Japan
Political party	LDP (2017–present)
Other political; affiliations	Independent (before 1998; 2015–2017); DPJ (1998–2015)
Alma mater	University 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]

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. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)

^ "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.
^ "PM Kishida taps Takeaki Matsumoto as new internal affairs minister". Kyodo News. 21 November 2022. Retrieved 21 November 2022.

External links

Official website in Japanese.

House of Representatives (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
Preceded by Minoru Terada	Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications 2022–2023	Succeeded by Junji Suzuki
Preceded by Junji Suzuki	Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications 2023–2024	Succeeded by Seiichiro Murakami