Fumiaki Matsumoto | |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Office: | Member of the House of Representatives |
Term Start: | December 21, 2012 |
Constituency: | Tokyo PR |
Term Start1: | September 12, 2005 |
Term End1: | July 21, 2009 |
Predecessor1: | Akira Nagatsuma |
Successor1: | Akira Nagatsuma |
Constituency1: | Tokyo-7th |
Office2: | Member of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly |
Term Start2: | July 8, 1985 |
Term End2: | 2001 |
Birth Date: | 25 March 1949 |
Birth Place: | Kōzan, Sera, Hiroshima |
Party: | Liberal Democratic |
is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party and a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). Matsumoto served as a vice minister for the Cabinet Office between August 2017 and January 2018. He resigned from his post after being recorded in the Diet mocking the gravity of US military helicopter accidents in Okinawa.[1]
A native of Sera District, Hiroshima and a graduate of Meiji University, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1985. After losing his seat in 2003, he was re-elected in 2005.
His profile on the LDP website:[2]
Matsumoto, who is affiliated with Nippon Kaigi, attended a party organized by the Tokyo branch of the openly revisionist lobby to celebrate the Shinzō Abe cabinet, where the Imperial Rising Sun Flag was flown, the "Kimigayo" sung, and the pledge to "break away from the post-war regime" renewed.[3]
Matsumoto gave the following answers to the questionnaire submitted by Mainichi to parliamentarians in 2012:[4]