| Hirotaka Akamatsu | |
| Native Name Lang: | ja |
| Office: | Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan |
| 1Blankname: | Speaker |
| 1Namedata: | Tadamori Oshima |
| Term Start: | 1 November 2017 |
| Term End: | 14 October 2021 |
| Predecessor: | Tatsuo Kawabata |
| Successor: | Banri Kaieda |
| 2Blankname1: | Speaker |
| 2Namedata1: | Bunmei Ibuki |
| Term Start1: | 26 December 2012 |
| Term End1: | 21 November 2014 |
| Predecessor1: | Seishirō Etō |
| Successor1: | Tatsuo Kawabata |
| Office2: | Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries |
| Primeminister2: | Yukio Hatoyama |
| Term Start2: | 16 September 2009 |
| Term End2: | 8 June 2010 |
| Predecessor2: | Shigeru Ishiba |
| Successor2: | Masahiko Yamada |
| Office3: | Member of the House of Representatives |
| Constituency3: | Aichi 6th (1990–1996) Aichi 5th (1996–2005, 2009–2012, 2014–2021) Tōkai PR (2005–2009, 2012–2014) |
| Term Start3: | 18 February 1990 |
| Term End3: | 14 October 2021 |
| Predecessor3: | Multi-member district |
| Successor3: | Kenji Kanda |
| Office4: | Member of the Aichi Prefectural Assembly |
| Constituency4: | Nagoya City Nakamura Ward |
| Term Start4: | 30 April 1979 |
| Term End4: | 26 January 1990 |
| Birth Date: | 3 May 1948 |
| Birth Place: | Nagoya, Aichi, Japan |
| Party: | CDP (2017–present) |
| Otherparty: | JSP (1966–1996) SDP (1996) DP 1996 (1996–1998) DPJ (1998–2016) DP 2016 (2016–2017) |
| Alma Mater: | Waseda University |
is a Japanese politician from the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, a former minister and Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan.
A native of Nagoya and graduate of Waseda University, he was elected to the first of his three terms in the Aichi Prefectural Assembly and then to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1990 as a member of the Japan Socialist Party.
He was appointed Minister of Agriculture in 2009. In April 2010, he skipped the traditional visit by legislators to Ise Jingu, opting instead to take a holiday in Mexico with his wife. While he was on vacation, Japan suffered a large outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. His response to the outbreak was widely criticized and the Ministry of Agriculture apologized on his behalf on May 31.[1] The Hatoyama government collapsed in June and Akamatsu was not reappointed.
Akamatsu was the Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives between 2012 and 2014 and again between 2017 and 2021.