Hirofumi Ryu (笠 浩史, Ryū Hirofumi, born January 3, 1965) is a Japanese politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature).[1][2]
Hirofumi Ryu (笠 浩史, Ryū Hirofumi, born January 3, 1965) is a Japanese politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature).[1][2]
A native of Fukuoka city and graduate of the Faculty of Letters at Keio University, Ryu was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2003 after working at TV Asahi in the Marketing and Broadcasting departments.
His profile on the DPJ website[3] also states that he serves as Chief Vice Secretary General and Deputy Chair, Election Campaign Committee within the party, and that his career also included the following positions:
Affiliated to the openly revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi,[4][5] Ryu was a supporter of right-wing filmmaker Satoru Mizushima's 2007 revisionist film The Truth about Nanjing, which denied that the Nanjing Massacre ever occurred,[6] and among the people who signed 'THE FACTS', an ad published in The Washington Post on June 14, 2007, in order to protest against United States House of Representatives House Resolution 121, and to deny the existence of sexual slavery for the Imperial military ("Comfort women").
Ryu gave the following answers to the questionnaire submitted by Mainichi to parliamentarians in 2012:[7]