Nariaki Nakayama

Nariaki Nakayama (中山成彬 Nakayama Nariaki; born June 7, 1943) is the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in the Cabinet of Junichiro Koizumi. Nakayama, a member of the Liberal Democratic Party, has led the fight to censor sections of junior high textbooks in Japan that make references to Japan's wartime sex slaves. He claims that the Nanjing Massacre was a complete fabrication, and is currently making efforts to revise the Kono statement of 1993.^[1]

Graduated from the Faculty of law, University of Tokyo in 1966, Nakayama joined the Ministry of Finance. In 1986 he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time, and since September 2004, has been the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

Third Realigned Koizumi Cabinet
(2005-10-31)
Secretary	Shinzo Abe
Internal Affairs	Heizo Takenaka
Justice	Seiken Sugiura
Foreign Affairs	Taro Aso
Finance	Sadakazu Tanigaki
Education	Kenji Kosaka
Health	Jirō Kawasaki
Agriculture	Shoichi Nakagawa
Economy	Toshihiro Nikai
Land	Kazuo Kitagawa
Environment	Yuriko Koike
Defense	Fukushiro Nukaga
Ministers of State	Tetsuo Kutsukake, Kaoru Yosano, Koki Chuma, Iwao Matsuda, Kuniko Inoguchi

[edit] External links

^ Reiji Yoshida (2007-3-11). Sex slave history erased from texts; '93 apology next? (HTML) (English). The Japan Times Online. The Japan Times. Retrieved on 2007-11-18.