Shingo Nishimura
{{short description|Japanese politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Shingo Nishimura
| native_name = {{nobold|西村 眞悟}}
| native_name_lang = ja
| image =
| caption =
| office = Member of the House of Representatives
| constituency = Kinki PR
| term_start = 21 December 2012
| term_end = 21 November 2014
| predecessor =
| successor =
| constituency1 = Osaka 5th (1993–1996)
Osaka 17th (1996–2000; 2003–2005)
Kinki PR (2000–2003; 2005–2009)
| term_start1 = 19 July 1993
| term_end1 = 21 July 2009
| predecessor1 =
| successor1 =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1948|7|7|df=y}}
| birth_place = Sakai, Osaka, Japan
| death_date =
| death_place =
| father = Eiichi Nishimura
| alma_mater = Kyoto University
| party = Independent
| otherparty = 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)
}}
{{nihongo|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
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
Affiliated to the openly revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi,Nippon Kaigi website 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.The Japan Times [http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/ff20071206r1.html NANJING MASSACRE 70TH ANNIVERSARY 6 December 2007] Retrieved on 21 August 2012
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'"."[http://www.japan-press.co.jp/modules/news/?id=6126&pc_flag=ON U.S. House committee passes sex slave resolution: failure of pro-Yasukuni forces]" - Japan Press - 24 June 2007
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.Chosun Ilbo [http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2013/05/17/2013051700951.html Right wing lawmaker rant at Koreans] Retrieved on 17 May 2013HGGN [http://www.hngn.com/articles/3122/20130517/japanese-restoration-party-leader-shingo-nishimura-gets-boot-more-controversial.htm http://www.hngn.com/articles/3122/20130517/japanese-restoration-party-leader-shingo-nishimura-gets-boot-more-controversial.htm] Retrieved on 17 May 2013
In the 2014 Japanese general election, Nishimura was defeated.
References
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- {{cite web |url=http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/diet/profile/0008/00008402.html |script-title=ja:政治家情報 〜西村 真悟〜 |work=ザ･選挙 |publisher=JANJAN |accessdate=2007-10-10 |language=Japanese |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071203100836/http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/diet/profile/0008/00008402.html |archivedate=2007-12-03 }}
- {{cite news |url=http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2013/05/17/2013051700951.html |script-title=ko:日의원 "일본에 한국인 매춘부 득실득실" 망언 |newspaper=Chosun Ilbo |accessdate=2013-05-17 |language=Korean}}
- {{cite web |url=http://www.hngn.com/articles/3122/20130517/japanese-restoration-party-leader-shingo-nishimura-gets-boot-more-controversial.htm|title=Japanese Restoration Party Leader Shingo Nishimura Gets the Boot After More Controversial Comments |date=17 May 2013 |publisher=HNGN |accessdate=2013-05-17 }}
External links
- [http://www.n-shingo.com/ Official website] {{in lang|ja}}
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Category:People from Sakai, Osaka
Category:Kyoto University alumni
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Category:Democratic Party of Japan politicians
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Category:Party for Japanese Kokoro politicians
Category:Japanese anti-communists
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Category:Nanjing Massacre deniers
Category:Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) 2003–2005
Category:Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) 2005–2009
Category:Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) 2012–2014