Shingo Nishimura (born 7 July 1948) was a Japanese conservative politician and a member of the House of the Representatives from 1993 to 2009 and from 2012 to 2014.
Biography[]
Shingo Nishimura was born in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, Japan on 7 July 1948, and he became a lawyer in 1982 and mounted a failed bid for the House of Councillors in 1992 as a Democratic Reform Party candidate; he would go on to serve in the House of Representatives from 1993 to 2009 and from 2012 to 2014. He switched parties to the Democratic Socialist Party in 1993, to the New Frontier Party in 1994, the Liberal Party of Japan in 1998, the Democratic Party of Japan in 2003, the New Renaissance Party in 2010, the Sunrise Party in 2010, the Japan Restoration Party in 2012, and the Party for Japanese Kokoro in 2014. Nishimura was an ultranationalist who was openly affiliated with Nippon Kaigi, supporting historical revisionism concerning Japanese atrocities during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II, denying Imperial Japan's sexual slavery system, and claiming that Japan was full of Korean prostitutes (leading to his expulsion from the JRP). He was defeated for re-election in 2014.