- Yoshinobu Shimamura
Yoshinobu Shimamura (島村 宜伸 "Shimamura Yoshinobu") (b.
March 27 ,1934 ) is a Japanesepolitician .Born in
Edogawa, Tokyo inTokyo , he graduated from the Faculty of Politics & Economics atGakushuin University in1956 and then enteredENEOS , aJapan ese oil company. He also worked as an aide to the Head of the Defense Agency until running successfully for the House of Representatives in 1976 as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party.He served as the Minister of Education for Prime Minister
Murayama in1995 , a Socialist administration. He was appointed theMinister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in 1997 and served in that position until 2000 when he was defeated in his reelection campaign. He ran again in 2003 and was elected, and was once again appointed theMinister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in 2004 by Prime MinisterJunichiro Koizumi .He also commented, in 1997, on the issue of
comfort women , Japan's sexual enslavement during the World War II. He said that 1) comfort women during the war probably were proud of themselves to volunteer for the Japanese military, 2) Comfort women were recruited by private companies, not by the Japanese military, 3) most recruitment was done by Koreans or Chinese.Fact|date=October 2007He opposed the Prime Minister's motion to dissolve the House of Representatives following the defeat of the government's postal privatization bill and was forced to resign in August 2005, prior to the
Japanese general election, 2005 .External links
*http://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/koizumidaijin/040927/08shimamura_e.htmlhttp://www.nanum.org/eng/index.html
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