Yohei Matsumoto


Yohei Matsumoto is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet. A native of Setagaya, Tokyo and graduate of Keio University, he worked at Sanwa Bank, from 1996 to 2003. He 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 Nanking Massacre ever occurred.