Yasuhiro Oe

is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature).

Early life Oe is a native of Tanabe, Wakayama. He graduated from Ashiya University and the Western Australia Institute of Technology.

Political career From 1979 Oe served in the assembly of Wakayama Prefecture for six terms.

After running unsuccessfully for governorship of Wakayama Prefecture in 2000, he was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 2001.

In May 2010, he joined the Happiness Realization Party, giving that group its first national political representative. He left the party six months later, and is currently a member of the Liberal Democratic Party.

Right-wing positions He was a supporter of right-wing filmmaker Satoru Mizushima's 2007 revisionist film The Truth About Nanjing, which denied that the Nanjing Massacre ever occurred.