Hirofumi Ryu (笠 浩史, Ryū Hirofumi, born January 3, 1965) is a *anese politician of the Democratic Party of *an, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature).

Contents

• 1 Career
• 2 Right-wing positions
• 3 References
• 4 External links

Career

A native of *uoka 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 TV 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

Right-wing positions

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 M*acre 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 parliamentarians in 2012:

• in favor of the revision of the Cons*ution
• in favor of right of collective self-defense (revision of Article 9)
• in favor of reform of the National *embly (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 *an
• in favor of a strong at*ude 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 *an to the Trans-Pacific Partnership
• against a nuclear-armed *an

References

External links

• Official website in *anese.