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Yohei Matsumoto
松本 洋平
Official portrait, 2019
Member of the House of Representatives
Incumbent
Assumed office
19 December 2012
Preceded byYoshinori Suematsu
ConstituencyTokyo 19th (2012–2021)
Tokyo PR (2021–present)
In office
11 September 2005 – 21 July 2009
Preceded byYoshinori Suematsu
Succeeded byYoshinori Suematsu
ConstituencyTokyo 19th
Personal details
Born (1973-08-31) 31 August 1973 (age 51)
Tokyo, Japan
Political partyLiberal Democratic
Alma materKeio University
Websitehttp://www012.upp.so-net.ne.jp/yohei/index.html

Yohei Matsumoto (松本 洋平, Matsumoto Yōhei, born 1973) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature).

Early life

Matsumoto is a native of Setagaya, Tokyo and graduated from Keio University. He worked at Sanwa Bank, (now part of The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ) from 1996 to 2003.

Political career

Matsumoto was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2005 after an unsuccessful run in 2003.

Right-wing positions

He was a supporter of right-wing filmmaker Satoru Mizushima's 2007 revisionist film The Truth about Nanjing, which denied that the Nanjing Massacre ever occurred.

References

  1. The Japan Times NANJING MASSACRE 70TH ANNIVERSARY December 6, 2007 Retrieved on August 21, 2012

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