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Shingo Nishimura
西村 眞悟
Member of the House of Representatives
In office
21 December 2012 – 21 November 2014
ConstituencyKinki PR
In office
19 July 1993 – 21 July 2009
Preceded bySeat established
Succeeded byMulti-member district
ConstituencyOsaka 5th (1993–1996)
Osaka 17th (1996–2000)
Kinki PR (2000–2003)
Osaka 17th (2003–2005)
Kinki PR (2005–2009)
Personal details
Born (1948-07-07) 7 July 1948 (age 78)
Sakai, Osaka, Japan
PartyIndependent
Other political
affiliations
DRP (1989–1992)
DSP (1992–1994)
NFP (1994–1998)
LP (1998–2003)
DPJ (2003–2010)
NRP (2010)
SP (2010–2012)
JRP (2012–2014)
PJK (2014–2018)
Parent
RelativesShōzō Nishimura (cousin)
Alma materKyoto University

Shingo Nishimura (西村眞悟, Nishimura Shingo; born 7 July 1948) is a former Japanese politician who was a member of the House of Representatives from 1993 to 2014. Nishimura is known for his negationism of Japanese war crimes committed during World War II.

Background and career

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A native of Sakai and graduate of Kyoto University Faculty of Law, Nishimura was elected to the Diet for the first time in 1993 after an unsuccessful run the year prior.

On 2005, because of violations of the Lawyer Act, 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

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Affiliated to the openly revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi,[1] Nishimura was a supporter of right-wing filmmaker Satoru Mizushima's 2007 revisionist film The Truth about Nanjing, which denied that the Nanjing Massacre ever occurred.[2]

Nishimura was among the members of the Nippon Kaigi council at the Diet who signed a full-page advertisement in The Washington Post following the US House Resolution on comfort women. The ad denied Imperial Japan'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'".[3]

In a statement defending mayor of Osaka Tōru Hashimoto in May 2013, Shingo Nishimura made the controversial claim that Japan is full of Korean prostitutes, a comment that led to his expulsion from the Japan Restoration Party.[4][5]

In the 2014 Japanese general election, Nishimura was defeated.

References

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  • 政治家情報 〜西村 真悟〜. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Archived from the original on 3 December 2007. Retrieved 10 October 2007.
  • 日의원 "일본에 한국인 매춘부 득실득실" 망언. Chosun Ilbo (in Korean). Retrieved 17 May 2013.
  • "Japanese Restoration Party Leader Shingo Nishimura Gets the Boot After More Controversial Comments". HNGN. 17 May 2013. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
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