Fujio Masayuki

Fujio Masayuki ( Japanese 藤尾 正 行 ; born January 1, 1917 in Tokyo Prefecture ; † October 22, 2006 ) was a Japanese politician and minister .

biography

Fujio was a member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and as such from 1955 to 1996 Member of the Lower House (Shūgiin) for the 2nd constituency of Tochigi . Within the LDP he belonged first to the Kono faction , then to the Fukuda faction and later to the Takeshita faction . In the Suzuki cabinet he was Minister of Labor between 1980 and 1981, and from 1983 to 1986 chairman of the LDP's Political Research Council ( 政務 調査 会 , seimu chōsakai ).

In June 1986, Prime Minister Nakasone Yasuhiro appointed him Minister of Education in his third cabinet . In a controversial interview with Bungei Shunjū magazine , he made several contradicting statements about Japan's role in World War II . He claimed that killing people in war is not murder in the parlance of international law and that the Tokyo trials cannot be called correct. He also compared a visit to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine with a visit to a Confucian temple . Finally, he described the Nanking massacre , in which at least 200,000 civilians and prisoners of war were murdered and around 20,000 girls and women were raped by Japanese occupiers, as an invention. After Fujio refused to apologize or withdraw his remarks, Prime Minister Nakasone dismissed him in September 1986.

After leaving politics for the Shūgiin election in 1996 , he mainly devoted himself to his hobby, the garden art of bonsai . He stood up for the establishment of the World Bonsai Friendship Federation in 1989 and was President of the Nippon Bonsai Association from 2004 until his death. He was awarded the Grand Cross of for his contributions to Japanese politics and society the Order of the Rising Sun honored.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chapter III. Major Diplomatic Efforts by Japan in 1985
2. ↑ Iris Chang: The Rape of Nanking .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. New York 1998, ISBN 0-14-027744-7 , pp. 203, 208  
3. ↑ Japan: Embarrassing conceit . In: Die Zeit , No. 41/1986
4. ^ Michael Mandelbaum: The Strategic Quadrangle: Russia, China, Japan, and the United States in East Asia . 1995, ISBN 0-87609-168-0 , pp. 138, 139
5. ↑ Nakasone's World-Class Blunder . TIME June 24, 2001
6. ↑ Iwao Hoshii, Peter J. Herzog: Japan's pseudo-democracy . 1993, ISBN 1-873410-07-7 , pp. 113-114
7. ↑ The ugly horse's foot. The cruel occupation of Asia is still being played down in Japan . ( Memento from July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Hamburger Abendblatt , May 11, 1994
8. ↑ Japanese Official Fires New Furor on the War . NEW YORK TIMES May 11, 1988
9. ↑ BONSAI BOOK OF DAYS. What Happened On This Date in "Recent" Bonsai History? ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Fujio is the family name, Masayuki the first name.