Right-wing Positions
Nakayama, a member of the Liberal Democratic Party, has led the fight to censor sections of junior high textbooks in Japan that make references to Japan's wartime sex slaves. He claims that the Nanjing Massacre was a complete fabrication, was a supporter of right-wing filmmaker Satoru Mizushima's 2007 revisionist film The Truth about Nanjing, which denied that the massacre ever occurred. During the administration of Prime Minister Shinzō Abe Nakayama made efforts to revise the Kono statement of 1993.
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