Nariaki Nakayama
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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.
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- ^ 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.
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