Name Yoshitaka Sakurada | Role Japanese Politician | |
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Yoshitaka Sakurada (桜田 義孝, Sakurada Yoshitaka, born December 20, 1949) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, and a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature).
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Career
A native of Kashiwa, Chiba and graduate of Meiji University, Sakurada had served in the city assembly of Kashiwa for two terms since 1987 and in the assembly of Chiba Prefecture since 1995. He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1996.
His profile on the LDP website:
Sakurada is a board member of the Tokyo Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (Tokyo 2020), and serves as a political adviser to the Pachinko Chain Stores Association (PCSA).
Positions
Affiliated to the openly revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi, Sakurada attended on March 3, 2014 the meeting to seek a review of the Kono Statement, where he voiced his support to the revision. In January 2016, he said that World War II comfort women were "professional prostitutes. That's business." He apologized later in the day.
Sakurada is a member of the following right-wing Diet groups:
Sakurada gave the following answers to the questionnaire submitted by Mainichi to parlementarians in 2012: