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Japanese internal affairs minister Matsumoto

Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Takeaki Matsumoto speaks at a press conference at the ministry in Tokyo on July 9, 2024.

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G7 digital ministers meeting in Gunma

Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Takeaki Matsumoto (C, back) declares a two-day meeting of the Group of Seven digital and technology ministers closed in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on April 30, 2023.

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G7 digital ministers meeting in Gunma

Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Takeaki Matsumoto (C) attends a press conference after a two-day meeting of the Group of Seven digital and technology ministers in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on April 30, 2023.

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G7 digital ministers meeting in Gunma

Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Takeaki Matsumoto attends a press conference after a two-day meeting of the Group of Seven digital and technology ministers in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on April 30, 2023.

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G7 digital ministers meeting in Gunma

Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Takeaki Matsumoto (L) speaks at a press conference after a two-day meeting of the Group of Seven digital and technology ministers in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on April 30, 2023.

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G7 digital ministers meeting in Gunma

Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Takeaki Matsumoto speaks during the first day of a two-day meeting of the Group of Seven digital and technology ministers in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on April 29, 2023.

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New Year's greeting cards

TOKYO, Japan, Jan. 1 Kyodo - Communications minister Takeaki Matsumoto makes a speech at a ceremony being held ahead of the start of delivery of New Year's greeting cards at Tokyo's Nihombashi post office on Jan. 1, 2024. (Kyodo)

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New Year's greeting cards

Communications minister Takeaki Matsumoto makes a speech at a ceremony being held ahead of the start of delivery of New Year's greeting cards at Tokyo's Nihombashi post office on Jan. 1, 2024.

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New Year's greeting cards

Postal workers depart Tokyo's Nihombashi post office on Jan. 1, 2024, to deliver New Year's greeting cards following a ceremony attended by communications minister Takeaki Matsumoto.

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Year-end Jumbo lottery draw in Tokyo

Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Takeaki Matsumoto attends the year-end Jumbo lottery draw in Tokyo on Dec. 31, 2023, with top prize winners set to win up to 1 billion yen ($7 million.)

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Japan's new internal affairs minister

Japan's new Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Takeaki Matsumoto (R) attends an attestation ceremony with Emperor Naruhito (L) at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Dec. 14, 2023. Seen second from left is Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. (Pool photo)

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Japan's new ministers

Japan's four newly appointed Cabinet ministers -- economic minister Ken Saito (far L), internal affairs minister Takeaki Matsumoto (2nd from L), Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi (2nd from R) and farm minister Tetsushi Sakamoto (far R) pose for a photo at the premier's office in Tokyo on Dec. 14, 2023, together with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (C) after attending an attestation ceremony with Emperor Naruhito at the Imperial Palace.

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Japan's new ministers

Japan's four newly appointed Cabinet ministers -- economic minister Ken Saito (far L), internal affairs minister Takeaki Matsumoto (2nd from L), Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi (2nd from R) and farm minister Tetsushi Sakamoto (far R) pose for a photo at the premier's office in Tokyo on Dec. 14, 2023, together with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (C) after attending an attestation ceremony with Emperor Naruhito at the Imperial Palace.

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G7 digital ministers meeting in Gunma

Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Takeaki Matsumoto attends a press conference after a two-day meeting of the Group of Seven digital and technology ministers in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on April 30, 2023.

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G7 digital ministers meeting in Gunma

Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Takeaki Matsumoto (L) speaks at a press conference after a two-day meeting of the Group of Seven digital and technology ministers in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on April 30, 2023.

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G7 digital ministers meeting in Gunma

Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Takeaki Matsumoto (C, back) declares a two-day meeting of the Group of Seven digital and technology ministers closed in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on April 30, 2023.

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G7 digital ministers meeting in Gunma

Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Takeaki Matsumoto (C) attends a press conference after a two-day meeting of the Group of Seven digital and technology ministers in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on April 30, 2023.

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G7 digital ministers meeting in Gunma

Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Takeaki Matsumoto speaks during the first day of a two-day meeting of the Group of Seven digital and technology ministers in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on April 29, 2023.

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Japanese internal affairs minister Matsumoto

Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Takeaki Matsumoto speaks at a press conference at his ministry in Tokyo on April 25, 2023.

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Japanese internal affairs minister

Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Takeaki Matsumoto attends a press conference at the ministry in Tokyo on March 22, 2023.

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New Year's greeting cards

A self-driving delivery robot departs Tokyo's Nihombashi post office on Jan. 1, 2023, to deliver New Year's greeting cards following a ceremony attended by communications minister Takeaki Matsumoto.

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New Year's greeting cards

Communications minister Takeaki Matsumoto makes a speech at a ceremony being held ahead of the start of delivery of New Year's greeting cards at Tokyo's Nihombashi post office on Jan. 1, 2023.

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New Year's greeting cards

Communications minister Takeaki Matsumoto makes a speech at a ceremony being held ahead of the start of delivery of New Year's greeting cards at Tokyo's Nihombashi post office on Jan. 1, 2023.

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New Year's greeting cards

Postal workers depart Tokyo's Nihombashi post office on Jan. 1, 2023, to deliver New Year's greeting cards following a ceremony attended by communications minister Takeaki Matsumoto.

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New Year's greeting cards

Postal workers depart Tokyo's Nihombashi post office on Jan. 1, 2023, to deliver New Year's greeting cards following a ceremony attended by communications minister Takeaki Matsumoto.

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Smartphone app enables comparison of pre- and post-A-bomb Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Professor Takeaki Nakajima of Hiroshima City University in Hiroshima, western Japan, shows an app he developed for a smartphone, on April 17, 2014, in Hiroshima, which allows a comparison of the Atomic Bomb Dome before and after the 1945 bombing.

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Monument for emigrants to be built in Dominican Republic

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - Takeaki Hidaka, a senior member of a Japanese group in the Dominican Republic, on May 19, 2012, points to a park in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic, where a monument financed by the Japanese government-affiliated Japan International Cooperation Agency will be built possibly later in 2012 to mark Japanese emigration to the Caribbean island nation in the 1950s.

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ASEAN-plus-3 foreign ministers begin talks

NUSA DUA, Indonesia - Japanese Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto (C) attends a meeting of foreign ministers of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations plus Japan, China and South Korea on the island of Bali, Indonesia on July 21, 2011.

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ASEAN, Japan foreign ministers meet

NUSA DUA, Indonesia - Japanese Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto (C) attends a meeting of foreign ministers of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations plus Japan on the island of Bali, Indonesia on July 21, 2011.

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Xi, Matsumoto meet in Beijing

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (R) and Japanese Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto meet in Beijing on July 4, 2011, during Matsumoto's two-day trip to China. (Pool Photo)

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Japan, China foreign ministers meet

BEIJING, China - Japanese Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto (L) and Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi meet in Beijing on July 4, 2011.

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Foreign ministers of Japan, Brazil meet

BRASILIA, Brazil - Japanese Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto (R) shakes hands with Brazilian Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota at the foreign ministry building in Brasilia on June 30, 2011. The foreign ministers agreed in their talks to ease visa conditions to boost bilateral business exchanges.

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Japan, U.S. to drop Futenma base relocation deadline

WASHINGTON, United States - (From L) Japanese Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Japanese Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hold a joint press conference in Washington on June 21, 2011. Japan and the United States agreed to drop the 2014 deadline for the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps Futenma Air Station in Okinawa Prefecture.

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Japan, Peru sign free trade pact

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto (R) and Peruvian Foreign Trade and Tourism Minister Eduardo Ferreyros shake hands after signing a bilateral free trade agreement in Tokyo on May 31, 2011.

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Okinawa gov. reiterates opposition to Futenma relocation plan

NAHA, Japan - Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima (R) hands written requests to the central government to Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto at the Okinawa prefectural government office in Naha on May 28, 2011. The governor reiterated his opposition to the plan to move the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station from Ginowan to Nago, both in Okinawa.

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Senegalese President Wade and Japanese FM Matsumoto

DAKAR, Senegal - Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade (R) and Japanese Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto meet at the presidential office in the Senegalese capital Dakar on May 1, 2011, on the sidelines of a Japan-organized international conference to follow up on the Tokyo International Conference on African Development which started in the city the same day.

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Japan to increase Africa aid as pledged

DAKAR, Senegal - Japanese Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto (front C) poses for photos with other participants in a ministerial meeting to follow up on the Tokyo International Conference on African Development that opened in the Senegalese capital Dakar on May 1, 2011. Matsumoto said Japan will steadily implement its pledges to increase aid to Africa despite a cut in overall foreign aid to help finance reconstruction from the March 11 quake-tsunami disaster.

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Matsumoto-Clinton meeting

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto (L) and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hold a joint press conference following their meeting in Washington on April 29, 2011. The two agreed to cooperate to prevent harmful rumors from spreading about Japan's farm produce due to the ongoing nuclear crisis in the country.

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Australian PM in tsunami-hit town

SENDAI, Japan - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard (2nd from L) visits the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 23, 2011, accompanied by Japan's Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto (R). Minamisanirku Mayor Jin Sato (L) briefed her on how he survived the massive tsunami that devastated his town on March 11. (Pool photo)

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Australian PM in tsunami-hit town

SENDAI, Japan - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard (2nd from L) visits the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 23, 2011, accompanied by Japan's Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto (R). Minamisanirku Mayor Jin Sato (L) briefed her on how he survived the massive tsunami that devastated his town on March 11. (Pool photo)

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Australian Prime Minister Gillard in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto (L) holds talks with visiting Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard in Tokyo on April 21, 2011. (Pool photo)

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Australian Prime Minister Gillard in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto (L) shakes hands with visiting Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard in Tokyo on April 21, 2011. (Pool photo)

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Clinton in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - (From L) U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Thomas Donohue, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Japanese Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto and Hiromasa Yonekura, chairman of the Japanese Business Federation, join hands after their meeting in Tokyo on April 17, 2011.

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Clinton in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks in a joint press conference with Japanese Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto after their meeting in Tokyo on April 17, 2011.

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Clinton in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L) and Japanese Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto address a joint press conference after their meeting in Tokyo on April 17, 2011.

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Japanese, Brazilian foreign ministers' meeting

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto (R) and Brazilian Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota shake hands at the Foreign Ministry's Iikura Guest House in Tokyo on April 16, 2011, ahead of their meeting. Patriota said after the meeting that Brazil would study easing its current restrictions on food imports from Japan in accordance with future improvements in the situation at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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Ministers promote safety of Fukushima produce

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto (L) eats a dish of curry with vegetables from Fukushima Prefecture at the ministry's cafeteria in Tokyo on April 15, 2011, to promote the safety of farm products from the prefecture and other areas affected by consumer fears of radioactive contamination due to the ongoing crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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Japanese, Argentine foreign ministers

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto (L) and Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman shake hands at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on April 11, 2011. Matsumoto said during their talks that Japan will fully disclose information about the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to the world, while Timerman promised Argentina's continuous support for Japan's reconstruction efforts.

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Japan and ASEAN meeting

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Japanese Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto (3rd from L), Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (C), and ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations show solidarity during a foreign ministerial meeting in Jakarta on April 9, 2011.

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Japan, ASEAN ministers meeting on quake relief

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (L), Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa (C) and Japanese Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto (R) offer silent prayers prior to a meeting of foreign ministers from Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to discuss coordination on reconstruction assistance for quake and tsunami-hit Japan on April 9, 2011, in Jakarta.