Jun Matsumoto | |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Order: | Chairman of the National Public Safety Commission |
Primeminister: | Shinzo Abe |
Term Start: | 3 August 2016 |
Term End: | 3 August 2017 |
Predecessor: | Taro Kono |
Successor: | Hachiro Okonogi |
Office1: | Member of the House of Representatives |
Term Start1: | 10 November 2003 |
Term End1: | 14 October 2021 |
Constituency1: | Southerb Kanto PR block Kanagawa 1st |
Term Start2: | 21 October 1996 |
Term End2: | 2 June 2000 |
Predecessor2: | Constituency established |
Constituency2: | Kanagawa 1st |
Office3: | Member of the Yokohama City Council |
Term Start3: | 1990 |
Term End3: | 1996 |
Constituency3: | Naka-ku, Yokohama |
Birth Date: | 11 April 1950 |
Birth Place: | Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan |
Party: | Liberal Democratic |
Otherparty: | Independent |
Alma Mater: | Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences |
is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature).
A native of Yokohama, Kanagawa and graduate of Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, he worked at the Japanese pharmaceutical company SSP Co., Ltd. from 1974 to 1978 and then at the pharmacy called from 1978 to 2003. Meantime, he was elected to the first of his three terms in the assembly of Yokohama in 1990, and then to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1996.
On January 18, 2021, 10 days after the declaration of state emergency due to COVID-19,[1] Matsumoto was spotted violating lockdown rules by visiting a restaurant and two hostess bars at night.[2] Additionally, he first affirmed having been there alone and only met the establishment's manager,[3] before admitting he was accompanied by fellow governing party officials Takashi Otsuka and Taido Tanose whom he had invited, and by female staff of the hostess bars.[4] [5] [6]