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About Takeaki Matsumoto
- Takeaki Matsumoto (?? ??, 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 Ito 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, only two days before the March 11 earthquake and tsunami and subsequent Fukushima I nuclear disaster.
