Keiji Furuya
Career. A native of Tokyo, who attended secondary schools in the NY area, and graduate of Seikei University, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1990. Affiliated to the openly revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi, Furuya is also a member of the following groups at the Diet: Japan (Vice Chair), Textbooks, Shinto, Yasukuni, Fundamental Education Law Reform (Committee Chair), Nikkyoso, Constitutional Revision, Japan Rebirth (Delegate Chair), China Memorial Photographs Protest (Vice Chair), Proper Japan, Protest American Comfort Women Resolution, North Korea Kidnap Victims (Secretary General). He is the head of the Japan-ROC  Diet Members' Consultative Council. Political career. Furuya has held the following posts: April 1984: November 1984: February 1990: July 1993: March 1995: 1995: January 1996: October 1996: November 1996: October 1997: September 1998: October 1999: June 2000: July 2000: December 2000: May 2001: October 2002: November 2003: October 2004: September 2005: October 2007: August 2008: September 2008: August 2009: October 2009: October 2012: December 2012: