Tomohiro Yamamoto

For the Japanese volleyball player, see Tomohiro Yamamoto (volleyball).
US Marine Corps photo 180407-M-OP674-180 BLT 1／1 Marines work alongside JGSDF during Japanese Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade’s unit-activation ceremony

Tomohiro Yamamoto (山本 朋広, Yamamoto Tomohiro, born June 20, 1975) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature).

Career

A native of Kyoto, Kyoto, Yamamoto attended Kansai University as an undergraduate and received a master's degree from Kyoto University. He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2005.

His profile on the LDP website:[1]

  • Director, Committee on security
  • Director, Delibative Council on Political Ethics
  • Member, Committee on Fundamental National Politics

On August 4 2022 it was reported that Yamamoto previously attended a Unification Church event where he had presented Hak Ja Han Moon with carnations, calling her "Mother Moon."[2] This attracted controversy as part of wider media coverage on the Unification Church's connections with the LDP following the assassination of Shinzo Abe.

Revisionism on Comfort women issues

Affiliated to the openly revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi,[3] Yamamoto was among the LDP members of the Diet who signed 'THE FACTS', an advertising published in 2007 in the Washington Post seeking a full withdrawal of the United States House of Representatives House Resolution 121 on Imperial Japan sexual slavery system ('Comfort women').[4]

References

  1. ^ Profile of Yamamoto Tomohiro on the LDP website: YAMAMOTO Tomohiro
  2. ^ 「マザームーン」発言や教団との関係、回答せず 自民・山本朋広氏 [LDP's Tomohiro Yamamoto refuses to answer questions about "Mother Moon" remarks or ties to cult]. Yahoo News (in Japanese). 2022-08-04. Retrieved 2022-08-16.[permanent dead link‍]
  3. ^ Nippon Kaigi website[full citation needed]
  4. ^ Ad in Washington Post - Jun 14, 2007 - see File:The_Facts_about_the_Comfort_Women.jpg[dead link‍]