Name Shinpei Matsushita Role Japanese Politician | Education Hosei University | |
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Similar People Yoshihisa Furukawa, Hiroyuki Arai, Tetsuro Nomura, Yoshifumi Matsumura, Makoto Nagamine Profiles | ||
Shinpei Matsushita (松下 新平, Matsushita Shinpei, born August 18, 1966) is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature). A graduate of Hosei University, he worked at the government of Miyazaki Prefecture from April 1991 to December 1996 and then served in its assembly from 1999 to 2003. In 2004, he was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time.
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.
References
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