Tōru Doi Explained

is a Japanese politician who serves in the House of Representatives of the Diet (national legislature) as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party.

Career

A native of Kurokawa District, Miyagi,^[1] Doi graduated the Tohoku Gakuin University School of Law in 1981.

After having served in the local assembly of Miyagi Prefecture (won in 1993, 1995, 1999, lost in 2003), Doi was elected to the Diet for the first time in 2005.

Positions

Revisionism

Affiliated to the openly revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi, that advocates a restoration of monarchy, and State Shinto in Japan, Doi often follows their agenda:

• he was among the 86 parliamentarians attending their March 7, 2006 meeting to promote the Imperial tradition^[2]
• he was among the lawmakers who signed 'THE FACTS', an ad published in The Washington Post on June 14, 2007, in order to protest against United States House of Representatives House Resolution 121, and to deny the existence of sexual slavery for the Imperial military ('Comfort women').^[3]
• he is in favor of the revision of the Murayama Statement and Kono Statement
• he is in favor of visits by a Prime Minister to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine
• he is in favor of the revision of Article 9
• he is a member of the following right-wing Diet groups:
  • Conference of parliamentarians on the Shinto Association of Spiritual Leadership (神道政治連盟国会議員懇談会 - Shinto Seiji Renmei Kokkai Giin Kondankai) - NB: SAS a.k.a. Sinseiren, Shinto Political League
  • Nippon Kaigi Diet discussion group (日本会議国会議員懇談会 - Nippon kaigi kokkai giin kondankai)

Answers to Mainichi polls

Doi gave the following answers to the questionnaires submitted by Mainichi to candidates in 2012 and 2014:

In 2012

His answers were:^[4]

• in favor of the revision of the Constitution
• in favor of the right of collective self-defense (revision of Article 9)
• in favor of the reform of the National assembly (unicameral instead of bicameral)
• no answer regarding the reactivation of nuclear power plants
• against the goal of zero nuclear power by 2030s
• in favor of the relocation of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma (Okinawa)
• in favor of evaluating the purchase of Senkaku Islands by the Government
• in favor of a strong attitude versus China
• against the participation of Japan to the Trans-Pacific Partnership
• against a nuclear-armed Japan
• in favor of the reform of the Imperial Household that would allow women to retain their Imperial status even after marriage

In 2014

His answers were:^[5]

• in favor of the revision of the Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution
• in favor of the right of collective self-defense
• no answer regarding nuclear plants
• no problem for visits of a Prime Minister to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine
• in favor of the revision of the Murayama Statement
• in favor of the revision of the Kono Statement
• no answer regarding laws preventing hate speech
• no answer regarding question whether Marine Corps Air Station Futenma is a burden for Okinawa
• in favor of the Special Secrecy Law
• in favor of teaching 'morality' in school

References

• Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/diet/profile/0000/00000021.html . ja:政治家情報 〜土井 亨〜 . ザ･選挙 . . 2007-10-07 . Japanese . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20071025100749/http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/diet/profile/0000/00000021.html . 2007-10-25 .

1. NB: The source says that he is originally from 宮城 黒川, but it probably meant 黒川郡, for there is no city or town that is named 黒川 in Miyagi Prefecture.
2. Nippon Kaigi website: nipponkaigi.org/activity/archives/997
3. File:The_Facts_about_the_Comfort_Women.jpg
4. Mainichi 2012: senkyo.mainichi.jp/46shu/kaihyo_area_meikan.html?mid=A04001001001
5. Mainichi 2014: senkyo.mainichi.jp/47shu/meikan.html?mid=A04001001001

External links

• in Japanese.