- United States House of Representatives House Resolution 121
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United States House of Representatives House Resolution 121 (H.Res. 121) is a resolution about comfort women which Japanese-American Congressman Mike Honda of California's 15th congressional district introduced to the American House of Representatives in 2007. It asks that the Japanese government apologize to former comfort women and include curriculum about them in Japanese schools.
This resolution was passed on July 30, 2007.
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Washington Post advertisement
Prior to this resolution, a Japanese group ran "THE FACTS" ad for suspecting grounds of this resolution on Washington Post, June 14, 2007.
This ad was advertised by the Committee for Historical Facts, and assented by Japanese bipartisan Diet members, academics, commentators, and journalists.
Committee for Historical Facts
- Taro Yayama
- Yoshiko Sakurai
- Nobuaki Hanaoka
- Koichi Sugiyama
- Kohyu Nishimura
Assentors
Diet members
LDP
- Masaaki Akaike
- Tomomi Inada
- Taku Etoh
- Takashi Otsuka
- Hideaki Okabe
- Yuichi Ogawa
- Cyube Kagita
- Yoshitami Kameoka
- Minoru Kihara
- Tsukasa Kobiki
- Manabu Sakai
- Yoshinobu Shimamura
- Motoshi Sugita
- Keisuke Suzuki
- Kentarou Sonoura
- Masaaki Taira
- Touru Toida
- Touru Doi
- Masaki Doi
- Katsuko Nishimoto
- Jun Hayashi
- Yoshihisa Furukawa
- Fumiaki Matsumoto
- Youhei Matsumoto
- Youji Mutoh
- Kazuo Aichi
- Tomohiro Yamamoto
- Atsushi Watanabe
- Yoshio Nakagawa
DPJ
- Kenko Matsuki
- Hirofumi Ryu
- Yoshio Maki
- Izumi Yoshida
- Takashi Kawamura (later became mayor of Nagoya)
- Takashi Ishizeki
- Kenta Izumi
- Hideo Jinpu
- Kenji Tamura
- Eiichirou Washio
- Keirou Kitagami
- Jin Matsubara
- Shinpei Matsushita (now swiched to LDP)
Independent
Academics
- Hayaru Fukuda
- Kohichi Endoh
- Masahiro Miyazaki
- Shudo Higashinakano
- Kazuhiro Araki
- Youichi Shimada
- Tsutomu Nishioka
- Nobukatsu Fujioka
Commentators
- Hideaki Kase
- Kanji Nishio
- Kouichirou Tomioka
- Hisahiko Okazaki
Journalists
- Shigeharu Aoyama
- Hiromichi Moteki
See also
References
External links
- H.Res. 121
- Remarks of Chairman Lantos on H. Res. 121, regarding Comfort Women, at committee markup by Tom Lantos
- Washington Post advertisement A response by a conservative leaning group of Japanese politicians and academics to the issue of comfort women, which mentions Resolution 121.
Categories:- Japan–United States relations
- Comfort women
- United States congressional resolutions
- 2007 in Japan
- 110th United States Congress
- Japanese military history stubs
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