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

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…

Veteran Japanese politician Yohei Kono has died at 89

TOKYO (AP) — Yohei Kono, a Japanese politician who as top government spokesperson offered a historic apology to Asian women over sexual abuses by Japan's wartime military, has…

Yohei Kono, former speaker of Japan's House of Representatives and former president of the Liberal Democratic Party, died on Monday at the age of 89, Japanese media reported on…

Yohei Kono delivered a historic apology in 1993 to tens of thousands of ‘comfort women’ who were forced into frontline brothels

China's top legislator Zhao Leji sent a message of condolence on Thursday to the family of Yohei Kono following his death, expressing hope that Kono's family would carry forward…