Takeo Hiranuma is a Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese politician. He advocates historical revisionism

Historical revisionism (negationism)

Historical revisionism is either the legitimate scholastic re-examination of existing knowledge about a historical event, or the illegitimate distortion of the historical record such that certain events appear in a more or less favourable light. For the former, i.e. the academic pursuit, see...

 regarding the Nanking Massacre

Nanking Massacre

The Nanking Massacre or Nanjing Massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanking, was a mass murder, genocide and war rape that occurred during the six-week period following the Japanese capture of the city of Nanjing , the former capital of the Republic of China, on December 13, 1937 during the Second...

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Basic biography

Takeo Hiranuma was adopted by his mother's grandfather's younger brother, Kiichirō Hiranuma, with his father and mother (all family together). Kiichirō Hiranuma was Prime Minister of Japan until 30 August 1939, and, had no wife nor biological children.

Hiranuma attended Keio University

Keio University

,abbreviated as Keio or Keidai , is a Japanese university located in Minato, Tokyo. It is known as the oldest institute of higher education in Japan. Founder Fukuzawa Yukichi originally established it as a school for Western studies in 1858 in Edo . It has eleven campuses in Tokyo and Kanagawa...

 and worked in the private sector for eleven years until moving to served as an aide for Ichiro Nakagawa

Ichiro Nakagawa

was a Japanese politician from Hokkaidō. He committed suicide at a hotel in Sapporo on January 9, 1983. Former House of Representatives member Shōichi Nakagawa was his eldest son. His younger brother is Yoshio Nakagawa....

 and Eisaku Satō

Eisaku Sato

This article is about the Prime Minister of Japan. For the governor of Fukushima Prefecture of Japan of the same name, see Eisaku Satō ....

. He then ran for a seat in the House of Representatives twice and failed, until he was finally elected in 1980 as a member of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party

Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)

The , frequently abbreviated to LDP or , is a centre-right political party in Japan. It is one of the most consistently successful political parties in the democratic world. The LDP ruled almost continuously for nearly 54 years from its founding in 1955 until its defeat in the 2009 election...

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Political career

Hiranuma served as Vice Minister for the Ministry of Finance

Ministry of Finance (Japan)

The ' is one of cabinet-level ministries of the Japanese government. The ministry was once named Ōkura-shō . The Ministry is headed by the Minister of Finance , who is a member of the Cabinet and is typically chosen from members of the Diet by the Prime Minister.The Ministry's origin was back in...

 in 1987 and Minister of Transport in 1995.

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi

Junichiro Koizumi

is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006. He retired from politics when his term in parliament ended.Widely seen as a maverick leader of the Liberal Democratic Party , he became known as an economic reformer, focusing on Japan's government debt and the...

 appointed him as Minister of Economy, Trade, and Industry in 2001, but fired him when in August 2005 when Hiranuma refused to support the Prime Minister's plans to privatize Japan Post. He was not endorsed by the Liberal Democratic Party in the 11 September 2005 election, but he was nonetheless reelected.

On April 10, 2010, he and several other politicians established a new political party, the Sunrise Party of Japan

Sunrise Party of Japan

The is a Japanese political party. The political party is formed by five Japanese lawmakers and parliamentarians, four former members of the Liberal Democratic Party and an independent politician. It was named by the veteran Tokyo Metropolitan Governor Shintarō Ishihara who supported the...

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Controversial statements

On February 1, 2006, he invoked controversy by arguing against the proposed imperial reform bill

Japanese imperial succession controversy

The Japanese imperial succession controversy refers to desires to change the laws of succession to the Japanese Throne, which is currently limited to males of the Japanese imperial family.- Overview :...

 on the grounds that Princess Aiko could potentially marry and have children with a "blue-eyed foreigner" in the future.

During a speech on January 17, 2009 in the city of Okayama, Hiranuma criticized diet member Renhou Murata's support of budget cuts to Japan's supercomputer

Supercomputer

A supercomputer is a computer at the frontline of current processing capacity, particularly speed of calculation.Supercomputers are used for highly calculation-intensive tasks such as problems including quantum physics, weather forecasting, climate research, molecular modeling A supercomputer is a...

 program by insinuating that she may not have Japan's best interests at heart because she is a naturalized Japanese.

External links

• www.hiranuma.org - Official Website