Eiichiro Washio

Eiichiro Washio
Eiichiro Washio
鷲尾英一郎
	Official portrait, 2009
Member of the House of Representatives; from Hokuriku-Shin'etsu;
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 9 February 2026
Preceded by	Ryuichi Yoneyama
Constituency	Niigata 4th
	In office; 12 September 2005 – 9 October 2024
Constituency	See list PR block (2005–2009); Niigata 2nd (2009–2012); PR block (2012–2017); Niigata 2nd (2017–2021); PR block (2021–2024);
Personal details
Born	3 January 1977; Niigata, Japan
Party	Liberal Democratic
Other political; affiliations	DPJ (2005–2016); DP (2016–2017); Independent (2017–2019)
Alma mater	University of Tokyo

Eiichiro Washio (鷲尾英一郎, Washio Eiichirō; born 3 January 1977) is a Japanese politician who serves as a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Niigata, Niigata and graduate of the University of Tokyo, he worked at Ernst & Young ShinNihon from 2001 to 2005. He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2005.

Right-wing positions

He was a supporter of right-wing filmmaker Satoru Mizushima's 2007 revisionist film The Truth about Nanjing, which denied that the Nanjing Massacre ever occurred.^[1]

References

↑ The Japan Times NANJING MASSACRE 70TH ANNIVERSARY December 6, 2007 Retrieved on August 21, 2012

External links

Official website in Japanese.

[1] The Japan Times NANJING MASSACRE 70TH ANNIVERSARY December 6, 2007 Retrieved on August 21, 2012

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