Yasutoshi Nishimura

at the Central Government Building No.4 (January 31, 2014)

Yasutoshi Nishimura (西村 康稔 Nishimura Yasutoshi, born October 15, 1962) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature).

Profile and career

with Urmas Paet (January 31, 2014)

A native of Akashi, Hyōgo and a relative of Akira Fukida, a former Minister of Home Affairs, Nishimura graduated the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law.

Nishimura joined the Ministry of International Trade and Industry in 1985, attending the University of Maryland while in the ministry. In 2003 he was elected for the first time as an independent after running unsuccessfully in 2000. He later joined the LDP.

Nishimura was running for the LDP presidential elections which was held September 28, 2009, but Sadakazu Tanigaki was elected.

Nishimura also served as Acting Director, Land, Infrastructure and Transport Division of LDP, Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Fukuda Cabinet), Deputy Chairman, Policy Research Council of LDP, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry of LDP's Shadow Cabinet, Senior Vice Minister of Cabinet Office.[1]

Ideology

Affiliated to the openly revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi,[2] Nishimura advocates its main causes: the revision of the constitution, the right for collective self-defense (revision of Article 9), visits to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine...[3]

Nishimura is also a member of several right-wing Diet groups, including:

References

  1. Nishimura Yasutoshi profile on LDP website: jimin.jp/english/profile/members/114731.html (retrieved Dec 12, 2014)
  2. Nippon Kaigi website
  3. Yasutoshi website: yasutoshi.jp/activity/?id=1253797203 (retrieved Dec 12, 2014)

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