Tomohiro Yamamoto

Tomohiro Yamamoto (山本 朋広, Yamamoto Tomohiro, born June 20, 1975) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature).

Career

A native of Kyoto, Kyoto, Yamamoto attended Kansai University as an undergraduate and received a master's degree from Kyoto University. He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2005.

His profile on the LDP website:[1]

  • Director, Committee on security
  • Director, Delibative Council on Political Ethics
  • Member, Committee on Fundamental National Politics

Revisionism on Comfort women issues

Affiliated to the openly revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi,[2] Yamamoto was among the LDP members of the Diet who signed 'THE FACTS', an advertising published in 2007 in the Washington Post seeking a full withdrawal of the United States House of Representatives House Resolution 121 on Imperial Japan sexual slavery system ('Comfort women').[3]

References
  1. Profile of Yamamoto Tomohiro on the LDP website: jimin.jp/english/profile/members/121061.html
  2. Nippon Kaigi website
  3. Ad in Washington Post - Jun 14, 2007 - see File:The_Facts_about_the_Comfort_Women.jpg
  • 政治家情報 〜山本 朋広〜. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2007-10-16. External link in |work= (help)
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