Shingo Nishimura (July 7, 1948 - ) is a Japanese politician, former member of House of Representatives, Japan.
Background and career
A native of
Sakai, Osaka and graduate of
Kyoto University Faculty of Law, Nishimura was elected to the Diet for the first time in 1993 after an unsuccessful run in 1992.
On 2005, Because of Lawyer act of Japan violation, Nishimura is divested his lawyer license.
Three other members of his family have also been members of the House of Representatives:
*his father Eiichi Nishimura (1904-1971) was a former chairman of the
Democratic Socialist Party - Shingo is his fourth son
*his father-in-law Okazawa Kanji
*his cousin Shozo Nishimura
Right-wing positions
Affiliated to the openly
revisionist lobby
, Nishimura was a supporter of
right-wing filmmaker
Satoru Mizushima's 2007 revisionist film
The Truth about Nanjing
is a 2007 film by Japanese nationalist filmmaker Satoru Mizushima about the 1937 Nanjing Massacre (Nanking Massacre).
Background and funding
Mizushima said he received more than 200 million yen (US$1.8 million) in donations from 5,000 of his ...
, which denied that the
Nanjing Massacre
The Nanjing Massacre (, ja, 南京大虐殺, Nankin Daigyakusatsu) or the Rape of Nanjing (formerly romanized as ''Nanking'') was the mass murder of Chinese civilians in Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China, immediately after the ...
ever occurred.
Nishimura was among the members of the Nippon Kaigi council at the Diet who signed a full-page advertisement in the
Washington Post
''The Washington Post'' (also known as the ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'') is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper within the Washington metropolitan area and has a large na ...
following the US House Resolution on '
Comfort women'. The ad denied
Imperial Japan
The also known as the Japanese Empire or Imperial Japan, was a historical nation-state and great power that existed from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 until the enactment of the post-World War II 1947 constitution and subsequent forma ...
's
sexual slavery system: "We must note that it is a gross and deliberate distortion of reality to contend that the Japanese army was guilty of 'coercing young women intro sexual slavery' in 'one of the largest cases of human trafficking in the 20th century'".
[U.S. House committee passes sex slave resolution: failure of pro-Yasukuni forces]
- Japan Press - June 24, 2007
In a statement defending the mayor of
Osaka
is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the third most populous city in Japan, following Special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama. With a population of ...
,
Toru Hashimoto TORU or Toru may refer to:
*TORU, spacecraft system
*Toru (given name), Japanese male given name
*Toru, Pakistan, village in Mardan District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
*Tõru
Tõru is a village in Saaremaa Parish, Saare County in western Est ...
in May, 2013, Shingo Nishimura made the controversial claim that Japan is full of Korean prostitutes, a comment that got him removed from Toru Hashimoto's party.
[HGG]
http://www.hngn.com/articles/3122/20130517/japanese-restoration-party-leader-shingo-nishimura-gets-boot-more-controversial.htm
Retrieved on May 17, 2013
In
Results of the Japanese general election, 2014, Nishimura was defeated.
References
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External links
Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Nishimura, Shingo
Living people
1948 births
People from Sakai, Osaka
Kyoto University alumni
20th-century Japanese lawyers
Members of the House of Representatives (Japan)
Democratic Party of Japan politicians
Democratic Socialist Party (Japan) politicians
Party for Japanese Kokoro politicians
Japanese anti-communists
Members of Nippon Kaigi
Nanjing Massacre deniers
21st-century Japanese politicians