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present Chairman of Hongō Gakuen,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Yoritake Matsudaira: Chairman, Hongo Gakuen )〕 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-cho'') of the Kagawa Scout Council. In 2012, Matsudaira was awarded the 337th ''Bronze Wolf'', the only distinction of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, awarded by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting, at the 25th World Scout Conference. As his father Yorihiro Matsudaira received the award in 1981, this is the first and thus far only time a father and son have both been awarded the Bronze Wolf. Matsudaira, whose namesake was a daimyo of the Edo period, the fourth lord of Takamatsu, is the 14th head of the Matsudaira family. As a Scout, he traveled to Texas and New Mexico in the United States and was a guest on a military base. After graduation from Waseda University, he worked for Toshiba. Now he is the president of . One of his hobbies is horseback riding, he is an amateur radio aficionado,〔http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:km8iX4ESpgYJ:www.ja1yss.org/jota_joti/report/2008jota_joti_report.html+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=jp "The longest Scout radio contact was made by the 33rd Akita Scout Group at JE7YSS over a distance of 25,600 km with the Cape Town Scout Group in South Africa, writes Yoritake Matsudaira."〕 and he gives lectures about the advantages of Scouting activities. ==References== * Scout Association of Japan publication celebrating the award of the Bronze Wolf to Yoritake Matsudaira * inbox@apr Monthly e-Newsletter of World Scout Bureau Asia-Pacific Region, June 2004 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yoritake Matsudaira」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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