Raizo Matsuno | |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Office1: | Director-General of the Japan Defense Agency |
Primeminister1: | Eisaku Satō |
Term Start1: | 3 June 1965 |
Term End1: | 1 August 1966 |
Predecessor1: | Jun'ya Koizumi |
Successor1: | Eikichi Kanbayashiyama |
Office2: | Director-General for the Prime Minister's Office |
Primeminister2: | Nobusuke Kishi |
Term Start2: | 1958 |
Term End2: | 1959 |
Office3: | Minister of Labor |
Primeminister3: | Nobusuke Kishi |
Term Start3: | 1959 |
Term End3: | 1960 |
Office4: | Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries |
Primeminister4: | Eisaku Satō |
Term Start4: | 1966 |
Term End4: | 1966 |
Birth Date: | 17 February 1917 |
Birth Place: | Yamaga, Kumamoto, Kumamoto Prefecture, Empire of Japan |
Death Place: | Tokyo, Japan |
Party: | Liberal Democratic Party |
Alma Mater: | Keio University |
Serviceyears: | 1940–1945 |
Rank: | Lieutenant-Commander |
was a Japanese politician. Born in Yamaga, Kumamoto, Kumamoto Prefecture in 1917, Matsuno served in the Imperial Japanese Navy as an officer at the end of World War II as he was attending Naval Accounting School.
He successively held numerous offices in post-war Japan:
He was Chairman of the Policy Affairs Research Council at Liberal Democratic Party, Chairman of the Executive Council.