Hirokazu Matsuno

Honestly, every time I see Hirokazu Matsuno I think about how thankless the job of Chief Cabinet Secretary really is. Picture it: standing in front of reporters twice a day, every single day, speaking in that flat, careful, deliberately unflashy tone where a single slip of the tongue becomes a headline. There's zero showmanship there, and that's kind of the point. I find I trust people like him precisely because they're not loud. The flashy ones grab the cameras, but quiet, dutiful operators are what actually keep an organization running. Understated, sure, but his record carries weight of a different kind too: he was replaced in December 2023 over suspected kickbacks of more than ¥10 million from the Abe faction's fundraising parties, and he denies that the 1923 Kantō Massacre occurred or that wartime comfort women were coerced.

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Hirokazu Matsuno is a Japanese politician born on September 13, 1962, in Kisarazu, Chiba Prefecture. He graduated from Waseda University and built his career in national politics. He sits in the House of Representatives for the Liberal Democratic Party. He was Chief Cabinet Secretary from October 2021 until December 2023, when he was replaced amid the Abe faction slush-fund scandal.

Name (English)

Hirokazu Matsuno

Name (Japanese)

松野博一

Reading

まつの ひろかず

Born

September 13, 1962 (age 64)

Origin

Kisarazu, Chiba Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Politician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Tiger

University

Waseda University

• Official sitehttps://www.hiro-matsuno.net/
• Xhttps://x.com/MatsunoHirokazu
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%BE%E9%87%8E%E5%8D%9A%E4%B8%80
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5770251

Tags

• From Chiba Prefecture
• Politician

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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