Raizo Matsuno

Raizo Matsuno
松野 頼三
Minister of Agriculture and Forestry
In office 1 August 1966 – 3 December 1966
Prime Minister	Eisaku Satō
Preceded by	Eiichi Sakata
Succeeded by	Tadao Kuraishi
Director-General of the Japan Defense Agency
In office 3 June 1965 – 1 August 1966
Prime Minister	Eisaku Satō
Preceded by	Jun'ya Koizumi
Succeeded by	Eikichi Kanbayashiyama
Minister of Labour
In office 18 June 1959 – 19 July 1960
Prime Minister	Nobusuke Kishi
Preceded by	Tadao Kuraishi
Succeeded by	Hirohide Ishida
Director-General for the Prime Minister's Office
In office 12 June 1958 – 18 June 1959
Prime Minister	Nobusuke Kishi
Preceded by	Jirō Imamatsu
Succeeded by	Fukuda Tokuyasu
Member of the House of Representatives
In office 23 June 1980 – 24 January 1990
Preceded by	Eijirō Seno
Succeeded by	Toshikatsu Matsuoka
Constituency	Kumamoto 1st
In office 26 April 1947 – 25 July 1979
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	Hiroshi Kitaguchi
Constituency	Kumamoto 1st
Personal details
Born	(1917-02-17)17 February 1917 Yamaga, Kumamoto, Japan
Died	10 May 2006(2006-05-10) (aged 89) Minato, Tokyo, Japan
Party	Liberal Democratic
Other political affiliations	JLP (1947–1948) DLP (1948–1950) LP (1950–1955)
Children	Yorihisa Matsuno
Parent	Tsuruhei Matsuno (father)
Relatives	Noda Utarō (grandfather)
Alma mater	Keio University
Military service
Allegiance	Empire of Japan
Branch/service	Imperial Japanese Navy
Years of service	1940–1945
Rank	Lieutenant-Commander

Raizo Matsuno (松野 頼三, Matsuno Raizō; 12 February 1917 – 10 May 2006) was a Japanese politician. Born in Yamaga, Kumamoto, Kumamoto Prefecture in 1917, Matsuno served in the Imperial Japanese Navy as an officer at the end of World War II as he was attending Naval Accounting School.

He successively held numerous offices in post-war Japan:

• Director-General for the Prime Minister's Office from 1958 to 1959 under Nobusuke Kishi
• Minister of Labor from 1959 to 1960 under Nobusuke Kishi
• Director General of the Japan Defense Agency from 1965 to 1966 under Eisaku Satō
• Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries 1966 under Eisaku Satō

He was Chairman of the Policy Affairs Research Council at Liberal Democratic Party, Chairman of the Executive Council.