“Yes, we remember the facts.” is a paid advertisement published in the November 6, 2012 edition of The Star-Ledger, a daily newspaper in New Jersey, by a group of Japanese comfort women deniers calling itself the Committee for Historical Facts. It is a revised version of The Facts (2007) ad, published in the June 14, 2007 issue of The Washington Post.
The ad recycles the same old comfort women denier arguments. The publication took place six months after Palisades Park, New Jersey turned down Japanese officials’ offer of one hundred cherry blossom trees in exchange for removing a small plaque memorializing comfort women.
Committee for Historical Facts is made up of:
The ad also included a long list of endorsements.
From Democratic Party of Japan (民主党)
- Nobuyuki Fukushima (福島伸享)
- Hiroki Hanasaki (花崎宏基)
- Yoichi Kaneko (金子洋一)
- Jin Matsubara (松原仁)
- Noboru Miura (三浦昇)
- Koichi Mukoyama (向山好一)
- Takashi Nagao (長尾敬)
- Masanao Shibahashi (柴崎正直)
- Kenji Tamura (田村謙治)
- Shu Watanabe (渡辺周)
- Izumi Yoshida (吉田泉)
From Liberal Democratic Party (自由民主党)
- Shinzo Abe (安倍晋三)
- Haruko Arimura (有村有子)
- Seiichi Eto (江藤晟一)
- Keiji Furuya (古屋圭司)
- Tomomi Inada (稲田朋美)
- Yoshihiko Isozaki (磯崎仁彦)
- Yoshitaka Ito (伊東良孝)
- Yasushi Kaneko (金子恭之)
- Kouichi Kishi (岸宏一)
- Nobuo Kishi (岸信夫)
- Seigo Kitamura (北村誠吾)
- Yutaka Kumagai (熊谷大)
- Hirokazu Matsuno (松野博一)
- Shoji Nishida (西田昌司)
- Hiroshige Seko (世耕弘成)
- Hakubun Shimomura (下村博文)
- Yoshitaka Shindo (進藤義孝)
- Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗)
- Naokazu Takemoto (竹本直一)
- Ichiro Tsukada (塚田一郎)
- Michiko Ueno (上野通子)
- Junzo Yamamoto (山本順三)
- Yuji Yamamoto (山本有二)
- Eriko Yamatani (山谷えり子)
- Hiroyuki Yoshiie (義家弘介)
From the Sunrise Party of Japan (たちあがれ日本)
- Takeo Hiranuma (平沼赳夫)
- Kyoko Nakayama (中山恭子)
Professors:
- Hayaru Fukuda (福田逸), Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform
- Kohichi Endoh (遠藤浩一), Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform
- Masahiro Miyazaki (宮崎正弘)
- Shudo Higashinakano (東中野修道)
- Kauzuhiro Araki (荒木和博)
- Youichi Shimada (島田洋一), Japan Education Rebirth Institute
- Tsutomu Nishioka (西岡力), Japan Education Rebirth Institute
- Satoshi Fujii (藤井聡)
Political commentators:
- Hideaki Kase (加瀬英明), Society for Dissemination of Historical Fact
- Kanji Nishio (西尾幹二), Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform
- Kouichirou Tomioka (冨岡幸一郎), Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform
- Hisahiko Okazaki (岡崎久彦), Japan Education Rebirth Institute
Journalists:
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