Tokyo, June 10 (Jiji Press)--Yohei Kono, former speaker of Japan's House of Representatives, the lower chamber of parliament, who is also known to have written a landmark 1993 statement over wartime comfort women, died on Monday at the age of 89, people close to him said
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Yohei Kono, former speaker of Japan's House of Representatives and former president of the Liberal Democratic Party, died on…
Veteran Japanese politician Yohei Kono has died at 89
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Il avait été un des premiers, en 1993, à exprimer les remords du Japon dans l’affaire des « femmes de réconfort », contraintes de…
China's top legislator Zhao Leji sent a message of condolence on Thursday to the family of Yohei Kono following his death,…
Yohei Kono delivered a historic apology in 1993 to tens of thousands of ‘comfort women’ who were forced into frontline brothels
