Japanese politician
Masayuki Fujio (藤尾 正行 Fujio Masayuki, January 1, 1917 – October 22, 2006) was the Japanese Minister of Education, under the government of Yasuhiro Nakasone until 1986. He was a member of the right-wing Seiwa Seisaku Kenkyūkai faction of the Liberal Democratic Party, where he was described as being a "loyal vassal" to Takeo Fukuda, the founder of the faction.[1]
In 1986, he was made Minister of Education by Prime Minister Nakasone, but he was soon fired by Nakasone after an interview with Bungei Shunju in which he made several controversial remarks about Japan's role in the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. In the interview, he questioned the criminality of the Nanjing Massacre, claiming "It is not murder under international law to kill in war".[2] Further, he compared the Nanjing Massacre with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and implied that if Japans war time actions were wrong then so were America's.
He died of pneumonia on October 22, 2006 at the age of 89.
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Minister of Labour
1980–1981
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Succeeded by Takiichiro Hatsumura
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Minister of Education
1986
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Succeeded by
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| Preceded by Jitsuzo Tokuyasu
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Chair, Cabinet Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives of Japan
1975–1976
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Succeeded by Yoshimasa Sakamura
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| Preceded by Jujiro Tosaka
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Chair, Education Committee of the House of Representatives of Japan
1976–1978
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Succeeded by Shigeru Suganami
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| Preceded by Rokusuke Tanaka
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Chairman of the Policy Research Council, Liberal Democratic Party
1983–1986
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