United States House of Representatives House Resolution 121

United States House of Representatives House Resolution 121 is a resolution about comfort women which Japanese-American Congressman Mike Honda of California's 15th congressional district introduced to the American House of Representatives in 2007. It asks that the Japanese government apologize to former comfort women and include curriculum about them in Japanese schools, citing 1921 International Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women and Children that Japan has ratified and United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325.

This resolution was passed on July 30, 2007.

Washington Post advertisement
On June 14, 2007, a group of conservative Japanese politicians, academics, and others ran an advertisement in the Washington Post critical of the resolution. The ad was in response to a previous advertisement by a group of Korean comfort women survivors that ran in the Washington Post in support of the resolution, titled The Truth about Comfort Women.



Committee for Historical Facts

 * Taro Yayama
 * Yoshiko Sakurai
 * Nobuaki Hanaoka
 * Koichi Sugiyama
 * Kohyu Nishimura

LDP

 * Masaaki Akaike
 * Tomomi Inada
 * Taku Etoh
 * Takashi Otsuka
 * Hideaki Okabe
 * Yuichi Ogawa
 * Cyube Kagita
 * Yoshitami Kameoka
 * Minoru Kihara
 * Tsukasa Kobiki
 * Manabu Sakai
 * Yoshinobu Shimamura
 * Motoshi Sugita
 * Keisuke Suzuki
 * Kentarou Sonoura
 * Masaaki Taira
 * Touru Toida
 * Touru Doi
 * Masaki Doi
 * Katsuko Nishimoto
 * Jun Hayashi
 * Yoshihisa Furukawa
 * Fumiaki Matsumoto
 * Youhei Matsumoto
 * Youji Mutoh
 * Kazuo Aichi
 * Tomohiro Yamamoto
 * Atsushi Watanabe
 * Yoshio Nakagawa

DPJ

 * Kenko Matsuki
 * Hirofumi Ryu
 * Yoshio Maki
 * Izumi Yoshida
 * Takashi Kawamura (later became mayor of Nagoya)
 * Takashi Ishizeki
 * Kenta Izumi
 * Hideo Jinpu
 * Kenji Tamura
 * Eiichirou Washio
 * Keirou Kitagami
 * Jin Matsubara
 * Shinpei Matsushita (now switched to LDP)

Independent

 * Shingo Nishimura (formerly DPJ)
 * Takeo Hiranuma (formerly LDP)

Academics

 * Hayaru Fukuda
 * Kohichi Endoh
 * Masahiro Miyazaki
 * Shudo Higashinakano
 * Kazuhiro Araki
 * Youichi Shimada
 * Tsutomu Nishioka
 * Nobukatsu Fujioka

Commentators

 * Hideaki Kase
 * Kanji Nishio
 * Kouichirou Tomioka
 * Hisahiko Okazaki

Journalists

 * Shigeharu Aoyama
 * Hiromichi Moteki