Role Japanese Politician | Name Takeaki Matsumoto Succeeded by Koichiro Genba | |
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Born 25 April 1959 (age 65) Tokyo, Japan ( 1959-04-25 ) Political party Democratic Party (1998–present) Other politicalaffiliations Independent (Before 1998) Similar People Seiji Maehara, Naoto Kan, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Akihisa Nagashima, Ichiro Ozawa | ||
Secretary clinton meets with japanese foreign minister 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.
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.
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