Takeaki Matsumoto

Takeaki Matsumoto
松本 剛明
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 for Hyōgo's 11th district
Incumbent
Assumed office 31 August 2009
Preceded by	Tōru Toida
In office 26 June 2000 – 8 August 2005
Preceded by	Tōru Toida
Succeeded by	Tōru Toida
Member of the House of Representatives for Kinki's PR block
In office 12 September 2005 – 21 July 2009
Personal details
Born	(1959-04-25) 25 April 1959 (age 65) Tokyo, Japan
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 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]