Members of Nippon Kaigi

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Among the members, former members, and members of affiliated organizations of the Japanese nationalist and historical revisionist movement Nippon Kaigi ("Japan Conference") are lawmakers, cabinets ministers and a few prime ministers. The chairman is Toru Miyoshi, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Japan. This influential lobby is estimated to have 35,000 members.[1]

Members and affiliates, by profile

Prime Ministers or former Prime Ministers

Ministers or former Ministers

Nippon Kaigi leaders

Honor presidents

Presidents

Vice-presidents

  • Aiko Anzai - a vocalist and politician
  • Ichiro Aisawa - former Senior Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs - Diet member - Chairman, House of Representatives Rules and Administration Committee - Vice-President of the Japan Scout Parliamentary Association
  • Shiro Odamura - President of MEISEISHA Co., Ltd, former Head teacher of Takushoku University,[9] also head of the Friends of Lee Teng-hui Association[10]
  • Koichiro Ishii - former chairman, Bridgestone Cycle Corp.[4]
  • Keiichiro Kobori - Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo
  • Kenko Matsuki - politician[4]
  • Tsunekiyo Tanaka - President, Jinja Honcho - The Association of Shinto Shrines

Advisors

The presence of Shinto chief priests, some with imperial blood, is consistent with Nippon Kaigi's aim to restore the Shinto god-like status of the Emperor of Japan.

  • Michihisa Kitashirakawa - High Priest of the Ise Grand Shrine, and great-grandson of the Emperor Meiji
  • Sangmu Takatsukasa (Naotake Takatsukasa) - Chief Priest of the Ise Grand Shrine, adopted child of princess Kazuko Takatsukasa
  • Sadahiro Hattori - Honorary Chief Priest of the Iwazu Tenmangu Shrine
  • Eshin Watanabe - Chief Priest of Enryaku-ji Shrine, Supreme Priest of the Tendai Buddhist Denomination, Honorary President of the Japan Conference of Religious Representatives (JCRR)

Secretary-General

Yuzo Kabashima - Chairman of Nippon Kyogikai (Council of Japan)

Members and affiliates, by name

(In italics, already listed above)

A

  • Shinzō Abe (Prime Minister)
  • Aiko Anzai (Vice President, Nippon Kaigi) - a vocalist and politician
  • Ichiro Aisawa (Vice President, Nippon Kaigi) - former Senior Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs - Diet member - Chairman, House of Representatives Rules and Administration Committee - Vice-President of the Japan Scout Parliamentary Association
  • Masaaki Akaike (Liberal Democratic Party - member of the House of Representatives in the Diet)
  • Kyotoku Akimoto (Representative, Shinsei Bukkyo - Buddhist sect - member of Nippon Kaigi representative committee)
  • Tsukasa Akimoto (Liberal Democratic Party - member of the House of Councillors in the Diet)
  • Akira Amari (Minister)
  • Kazuo Aoyagi (Executive director, Reiyūkai - member of Nippon Kaigi representative committee)
  • Eiko Araki (Part of a delegation of 41 Nippon Kaigi members from Tokyo who went to Saipan in 2005)[11]
  • Haruko Arimura (Minister)
  • Taro Aso (Vice Prime Minister, Minister of Finance)

C

  • Nobuaki Chosokabe (Chairman of the Sinseiren / Shinto Seiji Renmei Kokkai Giin Kondankai / Shinto Political League / Shinto Association of Spiritual Leadership / 神道政治連盟国会議員懇談会 - Chief Priest, Iyozuhikonomikoto Shrine - member of Nippon Kaigi representative committee)

D

  • Tōru Doi (Liberal Democratic Party - member of the House of Representatives in the Diet)

E

  • Yoshihiko Ebihara (Former Prime Minister's Office deputy director - Former member of the House of Councilors - Keidanren, military pension - member of Representative Committee of Nippon Kaigi)
  • Akinori Eto (Minister)
  • Seiichi Eto (Liberal Democratic Party - member of the Diet)[8]
  • Taku Etō (Liberal Democratic Party - member of the House of Representatives in the Diet)
  • Michio Ezaki (Former Editor in Chief, Sokoku to seinen (Fatherland and youth) author or co-author of 'Japan and Korea: Kindred Spirits for 2000 Years', 'The Alleged "Nanking Massacre"', 'Japan's Rebuttal to China's Forged Claims', 'The World Judges the Tokyo Trials', 'Anti-Japanese Networks Drag Japan into a Quagmire - Senior Fellow at Nippon Kaigi, policy research)[12]

F

  • Keiji Furuya (Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the Diet - National Public Safety Commissioner)[13]

G

  • Pema Gyalpo, (Political scientist).

H

I

  • Bunmei Ibuki (Minister)
  • Kazuo Ijiri (Author, former Director of the Institute of Japanese Identity, Takushoku - Council Chairman, Japan Institute for National Fundamentals - member of Nippon Kaigi representative committee)
  • Yuichi Imaoka, (head of the Yonago branches of Nippon Kaigi and the National Association for the Rescue of Japanese Kidnapped by North Korea)[14]
  • Kosaku Inaba (President, Nippon Kaigi)
  • Tomomi Inada (Liberal Democratic Party - Diet member)[13]
  • Reiho Inayama (Chief priest of the Nenpou Shinkyou Buddhist Denomination - member of Nippon Kaigi representative committee)
  • Shinji Inoue (Liberal Democratic Party - member of the House of Representatives in the Diet)
  • Shigeru Ishiba (Minister)
  • Shintaro Ishihara, Japan Restoration Party (former Governor of Tokyo - Director, Japan Institute for National Fundamentals - member of Nippon Kaigi representative committee)[15]
  • Koichiro Ishii (Vice President, Nippon Kaigi)
  • Tadashi Itagaki (Liberal Democratic Party - the son of General Seishiro Itagaki - a Lower House Representative - "a leading figure of promoting prime ministers' official visits to the (Yasukuni shrine - member of Nippon Kaigi representative committee)[16])
  • Kenichi Itō (a political analyst and former diplomat - President & CEO of the Japan Forum on International Relations, Inc., Vice Chairman of the Worldwide Support for Development, President & CEO of the Council on East Asian Community, President & CEO of the Global Forum of Japan, Professor Emeritus of Aoyama Gakuin University, former Director of the First Southeast Asian Division in the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs - member of Nippon Kaigi representative committee)
  • Shigeki Iwai (Liberal Democratic Party - member, House of Councillors)
  • Takeshi Iwaya (Liberal Democratic Party - member, House of Representatives in the Diet)

K

  • Yasushi Kaneko (Liberal Democratic Party - member of the House of Representatives in the Diet)
  • Hideaki Kase (a diplomatic critic, and the son of WWII diplomat Toshikazu Kase - Chairman of Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact - member of Nippon Kaigi representative committee)
  • Katsunobu Katō (Liberal Democratic Party - member of the House of Representatives in the Diet)
  • Sato Kazuo (Professor Emeritus, Aoyama Gakuin University - International Law - member of Nippon Kaigi representative committee)
  • Yoshio Keino (President, Japan Teachers' Association - Professor at Heisei International University, Faculty of Law, Law and Political Science - Board member of Kenpo Gakkai (The Constitutional Law Association), and of Nippon Kaigi)
  • Minoru Kihara (Liberal Democratic Party - member of the House of Representatives in the Diet)
  • Seiji Kihara (Liberal Democratic Party - member of the House of Representatives in the Diet)
  • Yoshio Kimura (Liberal Democratic Party - member of the House of Representatives in the Diet)
  • Nobuo Kishi (Liberal Democratic Party - member of the House of Councillors in the Diet - brother of Shinzō Abe and grandson of Nobusuke Kishi)
  • Fumio Kishida (Minister)
  • Shigeo Kitamura (Liberal Democratic Party - member of the House of Representatives in the Diet)
  • Yasumitsu Kiuchi (Commissioner General of the National Police Agency - Representative Committee, Nippon Kaigi - Father of Minoru Kiuchi, Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs - member of Nippon Kaigi representative committee)
  • Takeo Kawamura (Minister)
  • Keiichiro Kobori' (Vice President, Nippon Kaigi)
  • Kazuo Kogushi (Chief Priest, Atsuta Shrine - member of Nippon Kaigi representative committee)
  • Yuriko Koike (Minister)
  • Junichiro Koizumi (Prime Minister)
  • Kenji Kosaka (Minister)
  • Kishō Kurokawa (1934-2007 - architect and one of the founders of the Metabolist Movement)
  • Muneharu Kurozumi (Chief Patriarch of Kurozumikyō, a cult that worships the rising sun - member of Nippon Kaigi representative committee)
  • Fumio Kyūma (Minister)

M

N

O

  • Shiro Odamura (Vice President, Nippon Kaigi)
  • Yasuhiko Ōishi (1922-2014 - Economist, Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo - member of Representative Committee of Nippon Kaigi)
  • Keishu Okada (the daughter of Yoshikazu Okada, who founded the Mahikari cult, she founded the Sukyo Mahikari cult, which states that Adolf Hitler and the Second World War had the blessing of the Creator God - member of Nippon Kaigi representative committee)[4]
  • Seiho Okano (Leader of the Gedatsu-kai cult - Chairman of Shinshuren, the Federation of New Religious Organizations of Japan - member of Nippon Kaigi representative committee)[4]
  • Hisahiko Okazaki (1930-2014 - diplomat, director of the Okazaki Institute)
  • Makoto Oniki (Liberal Democratic Party - member of the House of Representatives at the Diet)
  • Kiyoko Ono (former Olympic gymnast, Minister of State, chairman of National Safety Commission)
  • Hiroo Onoda (1922-2014 - the Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer who refused to surrender after WWII, hiding in the Philippines until 1974 - member of Nippon Kaigi representative committee)
  • Itsunori Onodera (Minister)
  • Hidehisa Otsuji (Minister) - member of Nippon Kaigi representative committee

R

  • Hirofumi Ryu (Democratic Party of Japan - member of the House of Representatives in the Diet)

S

  • Shoichi Saeki (Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo - literary critic - member of Nippon Kaigi representative committee)
  • Tetsushi Sakamoto (Liberal Democratic Party - member of the House of Representatives in the Diet)
  • Yoshitaka Sakurada (Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet)
  • Yoshiko Sakurai (Journalist, TV presenter, and writer - President, Japan Institute for National Fundamentals)
  • Akiko Santo (Liberal Democratic Party - member of the House of Councillors in the Diet - former actress)
  • Noritaka Sekiguchi (the Chairman of and the son of the founders of the cult Bussho Gonenkai Kyōdan - member of Nippon Kaigi representative committee)
  • Masayuki Shibuki (Chairman, Kohken Co. Ltd - member of Nippon Kaigi representative committee)
  • Atsushi Shima (Chief of Staff, Japanese Government Self Defense Force - General - member of Nippon Kaigi representative committee)
  • Yoshiko Shima (Chairman, Asahi Photos News Inc. - member of Nippon Kaigi representative committee)
  • Hakubun Shimomura (Minister)
  • Yoshitaka Shindō (Minister)
  • Sadanoyama Shinmatsu (actual name Shinmatsu Ichikawa - former sumo wrestler, yokozuna, and head of the Japan Sumo Association - member of Nippon Kaigi representative committee)
  • Yasuhisa Shiozaki (Minister)
  • Hiroyuki Sonoda (Liberal Democratic Party - member of the House of Representatives at the Diet)
  • Tenkoko Sonoda (Liberal Democratic Party - member of the Diet - widow of former Foreign Minister Sunao Sonoda - member of Nippon Kaigi representative committee)
  • Hansō Sōshitsu (the 15th in a series of Japanese tea masters of the Urasenke family - member of Nippon Kaigi representative committee)
  • Yoshihide Suga (Minister)
  • Isshu Sugawara (Liberal Democratic Party - member of the House of Representatives in the Diet)
  • Iwao Sumoge (President of Densho Engineering Co., Ltd - member of Nippon Kaigi representative committee)
  • Shun'ichi Suzuki (Minister)

T

U

  • Keiichiro Uchino (CEO of Uchino, a law firm - President of the Tokyo Nakano Branch of Nippon Kaigi - Organized a November 2013 party to celebrate the Shinzō Abe cabinet where the Imperial Rising Sun Flag was flown, the "Kimigayo" sung, and the pledge to "break away from the post-war regime" renewed.[21]
  • Kazuo Uemura (Institute of Japanese Culture and Nationality / Kokubunken - member of Nippon Kaigi representative committee)
  • Tadanobu Usami (President of UI Zensen Domei labor union - RENGO - member of the Representative Committee of Nippon Kaigi)
  • Tetsuhiko Utsunomiya (Chairman of Nikka Corp - member of Nippon Kaigi representative committee)

W

Y

References

In general retrieved from Nippon Kaigi website

  1. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 "Abe’s reshuffle promotes right-wingers" (Korea Joongang Daily - 2014/09/05)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Hirata, Keiko. "Politics of Contention: Japanese Debates on the US-Japan Security Alliance" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA's 50th ANNUAL CONVENTION "EXPLORING THE PAST, ANTICIPATING THE FUTURE", New York Marriott Marquis, New York City, NY, Feb 15, 2009
  4. ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12 4.13 4.14 4.15 Nippon Kaigi website
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 "Pro-Yasukuni lineup features Aso Cabinet" - Japan Press Weekly - Sept 24, 2008
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 "Major conservative nationalist organizations in Japan" (Asia Policy Point - 2007)
  7. ↑ (Japanese) « 日本会議国会議員懇談会のメンバー » , asyura2.com, 02/09/2009
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Nationalist ‘Japan Conference’ building its clout" - Korea JoongAng Daily - May 3, 2013
  9. ↑ "The Quest for Japan's New Constitution: An Analysis of Visions and Constitutional Reform Proposals 1980-2009" p.75 (Christian G. Winkler, Routledge Contemporary Japan Series, 2011)
  10. ↑ "Ex-president has no plans to meet with PM during Japan visit" - Focus Taiwan - Aug 12, 2014
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 "Group gives away emperor’s poem to well-wishers" - Saipan Tribune - Jun 28, 2005
  12. ↑ Profile: Ezaki Michio - Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 "Pro-Yasukuni parliamentary groups backing up Abe Cabinet" - Japan Press Weekly - May 27, 2007
  14. ↑ "Japan Rightists Fan Fury Over North Korea Abductions" - New York Times - Dec 17, 2006
  15. ↑ "Tea Party Politics in Japan" (New York Times - 2014/09/13)
  16. ↑ "East Asia's Haunted Present. Historical Memories and the Resurgence of Nationalism" by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa and Kazuhiko Togo - pp 127-128
  17. ↑ Asahi Shimbun Aug 6, 2009 - quoted in Cable 09TOKYO1813, DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/07/09
  18. ↑ Chosun Ilbo Right wing lawmaker rant at Koreans Retrieved on May 17, 2013
  19. ↑ HGGN http://www.hngn.com/articles/3122/20130517/japanese-restoration-party-leader-shingo-nishimura-gets-boot-more-controversial.htm Retrieved on May 17, 2013
  20. ↑ "Japanese comfort- women deniers force White House response" - - Foreign Policy - June 6, 2012
  21. ↑ Nippon Kaigi website - 2013: nipponkaigi.jp/archives/391 - NB: on the law firm's website (uchino-law.com), there is a direct link to the site of Nippon Kaigi Tokyo Nakano Branch - retrieved Nov 24, 2014)

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