Yohei Matsumoto

Yohei Matsumoto
Yohei Matsumoto
松本洋平
	Official portrait, 2019
Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 21 October 2025
Prime Minister	Sanae Takaichi
Preceded by	Toshiko Abe
Member of the House of Representatives
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 19 December 2012
Preceded by	Yoshinori Suematsu
Constituency	Tokyo 19th (2012–2021); Tokyo PR (2021–2026); Tokyo 19th (2026–present)
	In office; 11 September 2005 – 21 July 2009
Preceded by	Yoshinori Suematsu
Succeeded by	Yoshinori Suematsu
Constituency	Tokyo 19th
Personal details
Born	31 August 1973 (age 52); Tokyo, Japan
Party	Liberal Democratic
Alma mater	Keio University
Website	http://www012.upp.so-net.ne.jp/yohei/index.html

Yohei Matsumoto (松本洋平, Matsumoto Yōhei; born 31 August 1973) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature) who has served as Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology since 21 October 2025.

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.

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

Matsumoto 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.^[1]