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Manabu Matsuda is credited as a politician, bureaucrat and university teacher. Born on November 11, 1957, Manabu Matsuda is from Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. That works out to 68 years old in 2026. Schooling on record includes Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo.
My Take
Manabu Matsuda has one of the more jagged careers in Japanese politics, and that is why he interests me. Born in Kyoto, schooled in Chiba, he went from the University of Tokyo's economics faculty into the Ministry of Finance in 1981 and spent nearly three decades in tax offices and inspections before resigning at fifty-two. Then came the political stretch: Sunrise Party, Taiyo no To, Ishin, the Party for Future Generations, the LDP, and finally Sanseito, the young party he ended up leading. You can read that route as restlessness or as a man who kept building his own room when none of them fit, and where you land decides what you make of him. In 2025 he won a seat in the House of Councillors, starting over as a freshman legislator in his late sixties. Some of his positions have drawn real controversy, but the engine behind them is his own.
This take was written by generative AI, one per person, from publicly reported facts (editorial policy). It is a reading of the record, not reporting.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Manabu Matsuda
- Name (Japanese)
- 松田学
- Reading
- まつだ まなぶ
- Born
- November 11, 1957 (age 68)
- Origin
- Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
- Occupation
- politician / bureaucrat / university teacher
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Scorpio / Rooster
2. Background
- University
- Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo
3. Links
- Official sitehttps://matsuda-manabu.jp/
- Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/matsudamanabu57/
- Xhttps://x.com/matsudamanabu
- Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manabu%20Matsuda
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%BE%E7%94%B0%E5%AD%A6
- Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11532042
4. About this entry
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Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.
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Born November 11, 1957 (age 68).
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Manabu Matsuda is from Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan.
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Manabu Matsuda works as politician, bureaucrat, university teacher.
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