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Revision as of 13:19, 14 November 2022

Japan Conference

日本会議
ChairmanTadae Takubo
General SecretaryYuzo Kabashima
Honorary ChairmanToru Miyoshi
AdviserKoichiro Ishii
Michihisa Kitashirakawa
Naotake Takatsukasa
Key peopleIwao Ando
FounderKoichi Tsukamoto
Founded(1997-05-30)30 May 1997
Merger ofNihon wo mamoru Kokumin Kaigi
Nihon wo mamoru Kai
HeadquartersVort Aobadai II, Aobadai, Meguro, Tokyo
Membership (2020)38,000[1]
Political orientationConservatism

Ultranationalism Historical revisionism Monarchism

Traditionalism
Political positionRight-wing to far-right
AffiliationsNippon Kaigi National Lawmakers Friendship Association
ColoursTemplate:Color box Black
Template:Color box Carmine
Website
nipponkaigi.org


The Japan Conference[a] is an ultranationalist, conservative, far-right lobby group in Japan.

Beliefs

The Japan Conference holds that "Japan should be applauded for liberating much of East Asia from Western colonial powers; that the 1946–1948 Tokyo War Crimes tribunals were illegitimate; and that killings by Imperial Japanese troops during the 1937 Nanjing Massacre were exaggerated or fabricated" and that comfort women were not forced into sexual slavery.

References

  1. Rupert Wingfield-Hayes (2020-08-15). "VJ Day: A WW2 hero and a reckoning with Japan's past" BBC News.

Notes

  1. Japanese: 日本会議, Romanized: Nippon Kaigi