Hirofumi Ryu

January 3, 1965

A native of Fukuoka city and graduate of the Faculty of Letters at Keio University, Ryu was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2003 after working at television Asahi in the Marketing and Broadcasting departments. His profile on the DPJ website also states that he serves as Chief Vice Secretary General and Deputy Chair, Election Campaign Committee within the party, and that his career also included the following positions: Parliamentary Secretary of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Senior Vice Chair, Diet Affairs Committee Leader, Kanagawa Prefectural Headquarters, DPJ Affiliated to the openly revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi, Ryu was a supporter of right-wing filmmaker Satoru Mizushima"s 2007 revisionist film The Truth about Nanjing, which denied that the Nanking Massacre ever occurred, and among the people who signed ‘THE FACTS’, an ad published in the Washington Post on June 14, 2007 in order to protest against United States House of Representatives House Resolution 121, and to deny the existence of sexual slavery for the Imperial military ("Comfort women"). Ryu gave the following answers to the questionnaire submitted by Mainichi to parlementarians in 2012: in favor of the revision of the Constitution in favor of right of collective self-defense (revision of Article 9) in favor of reform of the National assembly (unicameral instead of bicameral) in favor of reactivating nuclear power plants in favor of zero nuclear power by 2030s in favor of the relocation of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma (Okinawa) in favor of evaluating the purchase of Senkaku Islands by the Government in favor of a strong attitude versus China against the reform of the Imperial Household that would allow women to retain their Imperial status even after marriage against the participation of Japan to the Transport-Pacific Partnership against a nuclear-armed Japan.

Hirofumi Ryu

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A native of Fukuoka city and graduate of the Faculty of Letters at Keio University, Ryu was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2003 after working at television Asahi in the Marketing and Broadcasting departments. His profile on the DPJ website also states that he serves as Chief Vice Secretary General and Deputy Chair, Election Campaign Committee within the party, and that his career also included the following positions:

Parliamentary Secretary of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

Senior Vice Chair, Diet Affairs Committee

Leader, Kanagawa Prefectural Headquarters, DPJ

Affiliated to the openly revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi, Ryu was a supporter of right-wing filmmaker Satoru Mizushima"s 2007 revisionist film The Truth about Nanjing, which denied that the Nanking Massacre ever occurred, and among the people who signed ‘THE FACTS’, an ad published in the Washington Post on June 14, 2007 in order to protest against United States House of Representatives House Resolution 121, and to deny the existence of sexual slavery for the Imperial military ("Comfort women"). Ryu gave the following answers to the questionnaire submitted by Mainichi to parlementarians in 2012:

in favor of the revision of the Constitution

in favor of right of collective self-defense (revision of Article 9)

in favor of reform of the National assembly (unicameral instead of bicameral)

in favor of reactivating nuclear power plants

in favor of zero nuclear power by 2030s

in favor of the relocation of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma (Okinawa)

in favor of evaluating the purchase of Senkaku Islands by the Government

in favor of a strong attitude versus China

against the reform of the Imperial Household that would allow women to retain their Imperial status even after marriage

against the participation of Japan to the Transport-Pacific Partnership

against a nuclear-armed Japan.

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