Kyoko Nishikawa

Kyoko Nishikawa is a Japanese political activist of the Liberal Democratic Party, who served as a member of House of Representatives in the Diet.

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Biography

A native of Ōme, Tokyo and graduate of Waseda University Faculty of Education, Nishikawa was elected for the first time in 2000.
Her husband Hiroshi Nishikawa, a banker, is a mayor in Ashikita District, Kumamoto Prefecture.
Her profile on the LDP website:

Director, Committee on Health, Labour and Welfare
Member, Commission on the Constitution
Director, Special Committee on Consumer Affairs
Deputy Chairman, Policy Research Council of LDP

Ideology

Kyoko Nishikawa, a former Lower House member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party who served as senior vice education minister, said to the effect that Japan waged the war to help all the nations of Asia prosper and gain independence.
Nishikawa is affiliated to the openly revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi, and a member of several right-wing Diet groups:

Secretary General, Diet Members to Discuss Japanese Future and History Education
Deputy Secretary General, Nippon Kaigi Diet discussion group
Pro-Yasukuni Alliance
Conference of young parliamentarians supporting the idea that the Yasukuni Shrine is a true national interest and desire for peace
Alliance of Diet Members for Acting Toward the Fast Rescue of Japanese Victims Kidnapped by North Korea
Japan Rebirth
Parliamentarians acting to protect the Japanese territory

Nishikawa is also a member of the Japan Buddhist Federation.
In 2013, Nishikawa referred to sexual slavery for the Imperial military as "mere prostitution".
Nishikawa gave the following answers to the questionnaire submitted by Mainichi to parliamentarians in 2014:

in favor of the revision of the Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution
in favor of the right of collective self-defense
in favor of 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
against laws preventing hate speech
considers Marine Corps Air Station Futenma is a burden for Okinawa
in favor of the Special Secrecy Law
in favor of teaching 'morality' in school