Shinpei Matsushita

Honestly, when I first saw the name Shinpei Matsushita, my brain jumped to the Matsushita political school lineage — but that might just be a coincidence of surnames. A former Miyazaki prefectural official who has held his upper house seat for four terms and served as a state minister — and underneath all that, the grind of showing up for constituents, shaking hands in the rain, and hauling local concerns all the way to Tokyo. That Leo stubborn streak probably helps you push through the sheer repetitiveness of it all. I don't know his specific policy wins, and I'm not going to pretend I do, but there's something quietly respectable about a person who stays in the background of public life doing the unsexy work that keeps the machine moving.

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Shinpei Matsushita is a Japanese politician born on August 18, 1966. He graduated from Hosei University. A former Miyazaki prefectural official and prefectural assemblyman, he is a four-term Liberal Democratic Party member of the House of Councillors and has served as State Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications.

Name (English)

Shinpei Matsushita

Name (Japanese)

松下新平

Reading

まつした しんぺい

Born

August 18, 1966 (age 60)

Origin

Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Politician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Horse

University

Hosei University

• Official sitehttps://www.shinnpei.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/shinpei_matsushita_office/
• Xhttps://x.com/shinpeim
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%BE%E4%B8%8B%E6%96%B0%E5%B9%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7497735

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Last updated

November 2, 2026

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