Yoritake Matsudaira (松平賴武, Matsudaira Yoritake, born August 17, 1938 in Kagawa, Japan) present chairman of Hongō Gakuen,[1] served as the international commissioner and member of the board of directors of the Scout Association of Japan, as well as a member of the Asia-Pacific Regional Scout Committee and a founding member of the World Buddhist Scout Brotherhood. Matsudaira retired from the post of International Commissioner on reaching the retirement age of 65 in 2003, and presently serves as president (Renmei-chō) of the Kagawa Scout Council.
Yoritake is a second cousin of the present head of the Tokugawa clan, Tokugawa Tsunenari, as both are great-grandsons of Nabeshima Naohiro, the 11th and last daimyō of Saga. By virtue of his descent from the kuge Madenokōji family, he is also a sixth cousin once removed of the present Emperor, Akihito.
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