Yohei Matsumoto

Yohei Matsumoto (松本 洋平 Matsumoto Yōhei, born 1973) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Setagaya, Tokyo and graduate of Keio University, he worked at Sanwa Bank, (now part of The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ) from 1996 to 2003. He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2005 after an unsuccessful run in 2003.

Right-wing positions

He 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.[1]

References

  1. ↑ The Japan Times NANJING MASSACRE 70TH ANNIVERSARY December 6, 2007 Retrieved on August 21, 2012


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