MATSUMOTO Takeaki
Date of Birth: April 25, 1959, born in Tokyo
Constituency: Hyogo 11th District, elected 8 times
[Brief personal history]
- Mar. 1982
- Graduated from the School of Law, University of Tokyo
- Apr. 1982
- Joined the former Industrial Bank of Japan, Ltd.
- Aug. 1989
- Special Assistant to the Minister of Defense Agency, Mr. Juro Matsumoto
- June 2000
- Elected to the House of Representatives for the first time (42nd General Election)
- Sept. 2005
- Chair of the Policy Research Committee of the former Democratic Party of Japan
- Sept. 2009
- Chair of the House Steering Committee, House of Representatives
- Mar. 2011
- Minister for Foreign Affairs
- Sept. 2017
- Joined the Liberal Democratic Party
- Oct. 2018
- Acting Chair of the Policy Research Council of the Liberal Democratic Party
- Oct. 2019
- Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives
- Oct. 2021
- Elected to the 49th House of Representatives (8 terms)
- Nov. 2022
- Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications
- Oct. 2023
- Chair of the Research Commission on Market Competitiveness Policy of the Liberal Democratic Party
- Dec. 2023
- Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications