| Taku Etō | |
| Birth Date: | 1 July 1960 |
| Birth Place: | Hyuga, Miyazaki |
| Alma Mater: | Seijo University |
| Office: | Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries |
| Termstart: | 11 September 2019 |
| Termend: | 16 September 2020 |
| Predecessor: | Takamori Yoshikawa |
| Successor: | Kōtarō Nogami |
| Office1: | Member of the House of Representatives |
| Termstart1: | 10 November 2003 |
| Constituency1: | Miyazaki 2nd |
| Predecessor1: | Takami Eto |
| Website: | https://eto-taku.jp/ |
is a Japanese politician and a member of the House of Representatives He previously served as the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzō Abe.
A native of Kadogawa, Miyazaki and graduate of Seijo University, Eto was elected to the hous efor the first time in 2003, succeeding his father, a controversial former government minister, Takami Eto.[1]
Taku Eto's profile on the LDP website:[2]
Taku Eto's views are consistent with his father's: Takami Eto infuriated Japan's neighbors by defending the 1910 Annexation Treaty which gave the control of Korea to the Empire of Japan, denying the fact that Korea was invaded, campaigning for the revision of textbooks mentioning 'comfort women', the women and girls forced into sexual slavery., or also denying the existence of the Nanking massacre.[3]
Taku Eto is affiliated to the openly revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi, which advocates a restoration of monarchy in the archipelago and negates the existence of Japanese war crimes. He was among the 86 MPs invited to the meeting for the 'one million people rally to protect the Imperial tradition' in March 2006,[4] and among the people 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').[5]
Taku Eto belongs to the following Diet groups, very consistent with Nippon Kaigi's vision:
Eto also gave the following answers to the questionnaire submitted by Mainichi to parliamentarians in 2012:[6]