Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on May 20 apologized to Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki for the derogatory comments uttered by a ...

LDP lawmaker Shoji Nishida called descriptions on a monument commemorating the Himeyuri corps of female students who died in ...

It was an extremely insensitive comment that dismissed out of hand the efforts made by the people of Okinawa and others to ...

A hawkish member of Japan's ruling party on Wednesday came under fire for his statement that descriptions at a war memorial rewrote t ...

Shoji Nishida, a Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) member of Japan's House of Councillors, has made outrageous remarks that ...

Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Shoji Nishida on May 9 retracted and apologized for remarks denigrating a war memorial in ...

Shoji Nishida, a member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party in the Upper House, has criticized Himeyuri-no-to, a memorial ...

Upper House member Shoji Nishida, 66, who said education about the battle has been “ridiculous,” has stood by his remarks. But he has found few allies willing to back him up. Critics ...

Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Shoji Nishida has refused to withdraw remarks he made over exhibits about the "Himeyuri" nursing corps who died in the fierce Battle of Okinawa in the final phase ...

Shoji Nishida, an LDP member of the House of Councillors, the upper chamber of parliament, said that descriptions on a monument commemorating the Himeyuri corps of female students who died in the ...

House of Councillors member Shoji Nishida of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party explains his own remarks over Himeyuri Cenotaph in Okinawa Prefecture, during a press conference in the Diet ...