TOKYO (TR) – On Wednesday, the positioning for weekly tabloid Shukan Bunshun reported that Yohei Matsumoto, the minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, is engaged in an affair with a married girl.
According to the report, Matsumoto, who can also be married, started the affair with the girl about six years in the past. During that point, he engaged in secret conferences along with her in love resorts and his residence within the House of Representatives constructing.
A reporter for the journal approached Matsumoto in Shibuya Ward on the evening of March 3. After efficiently concluding the Budget Committee session on March 3, Matsumoto relaxed at a members-only bar to observe a Samurai Japan match together with his buddies.
As the Liberal Democratic Party member was about to go house, the Bunshun reporter requested him in regards to the girl. “I don’t answer questions about my private life,” he stated in an official assertion despatched after the dialogue with the reporter.
“Held strictly accountable”
In 2014, Matsumoto married his spouse, who’s a former worker of recruitment agency Pasona. They have two kids.
Matsumoto was elected to the House of Representatives for the seventh time at this yr’s election. He first joined the cupboard as training minister within the Sanae Takaichi administration that took workplace final fall.
He has served as Director of the Liberal Democratic Party’s Youth Bureau and Vice Minister of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
According Jiji Press (Mar. 11), Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara acknowledged at a press convention, “We are aware of the reports, but will refrain from commenting.”
Meanwhile, Junya Ogawa, chief of the Center Reform Alliance, informed reporters in Iwate Prefecture, “Matsumoto will be held strictly accountable.”