Takeaki Matsumoto

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	(1959-04-25) 25 April 1959 Tokyo, Japan
Political party	Democratic Party (1998–present)
Other political affiliations	Independent (Before 1998)
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 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.

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. Matsumoto was selected as Foreign Minister of Japan in 2011 by Prime Minister Naoto Kan, after the resignation of his predecessor, Seiji Maehara.

External links

• Official website in Japanese.

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