Fumiaki Matsumoto
{{short description|Japanese politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Fumiaki Matsumoto
| native_name = {{nobold|松本 文明}}
| native_name_lang = ja
| image = Fumiaki Matsumoto 201708.jpg
| image_size = 220px
| caption = Official portrait, 2017
| office = Member of the House of Representatives
| term_start = 21 December 2012
| term_end = 14 October 2021
| predecessor =
| successor =
| constituency = Tokyo PR
| term_start1 = 12 September 2005
| term_end1 = 21 July 2009
| predecessor1 = Akira Nagatsuma
| successor1 = Akira Nagatsuma
| constituency1 = Tokyo 7th
| office2 = Member of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly
| term_start2 = 8 July 1985
| term_end2 = 2001
| predecessor2 =
| successor2 =
| constituency2 = Nakano Ward
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1949|3|25|df=y}}
| birth_place = Kōzan, Hiroshima, Japan
| death_date =
| party = Liberal Democratic
| otherparty =
| alma_mater = Meiji University
}}
{{nihongo|Fumiaki Matsumoto|松本 文明|Matsumoto Fumiaki|extra=born March 25, 1949}} is a former Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, who served as 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.{{cite news|url=http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201801270022.html|title=Okinawa gaffe costs deputy minister his job before key poll|publisher=Asahi Shimbun|access-date=28 January 2018|archive-date=28 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180128010246/http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201801270022.html|url-status=dead}}
Overviews
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:[http://www.jimin.jp/english/profile/members/120956.html jimin.jp/english/profile/members/120956.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141203120247/https://www.jimin.jp/english/profile/members/120956.html |date=2014-12-03 }} (retrieved Nov 24, 2014)
- Former member of the Metropolitan Assembly
- Member, Committee on Audit and Oversight of Administration
- Member, Special Committee on Disasters
- Director, Committee on Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
Positions
File:Delegates of the Miss International and Fumiaki Matsumoto 20171122.jpg (22 November 2017)]]
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.Nippon Kaigi website - 2013: [http://www.nipponkaigi.jp/archives/391 nipponkaigi.jp/archives/391] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303165413/http://www.nipponkaigi.jp/archives/391 |date=2016-03-03 }}
Matsumoto gave the following answers to the questionnaire submitted by Mainichi to parliamentarians in 2012:Mainichi 2012: [http://senkyo.mainichi.jp/46shu/kaihyo_area_meikan.html?mid=A13007005005 senkyo.mainichi.jp/46shu/kaihyo_area_meikan.html?mid=A13007005005]
- in favor of the revision of the Constitution
- in favor of right of collective self-defense (revision of Article 9)
- in favor of reform of the National assembly (unicameral instead of bicameral)
- in favor of the reactivation of nuclear plants
- against the goal of zero nuclear power by 2030s
- in favor of the relocation of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma (Okinawa)
- in favor of evaluating the purchase of Senkaku Islands by the Government
- in favor of a strong attitude versus China
- against the reform of the Imperial Household that would allow women to retain their Imperial status even after marriage
- against the participation of Japan to the Trans-Pacific Partnership
- against a nuclear-armed Japan
References
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Sources
- {{cite news |url=http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/diet/profile/0000/00000076.html |script-title=ja:政治家情報 〜松本 文明〜 |script-newspaper=ja:ザ･選挙 |newspaper=JANJAN |access-date=2007-10-14 |language=ja}}
External links
- [http://homepage2.nifty.com/F-MATUMOTO/ Official website]{{Dead link|date=December 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} in Japanese.
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Category:Politicians from Hiroshima Prefecture
Category:Members of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly
Category:Members of Nippon Kaigi
Category:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) politicians
Category:Meiji University alumni
Category:Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) 2005–2009
Category:Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) 2012–2014
Category:Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) 2014–2017