Masayuki Fujio

Masayuki Fujio
藤尾 正行
Minister of Education
In office 22 July 1986 – 9 September 1986
Prime Minister	Yasuhiro Nakasone
Preceded by	Toshiki Kaifu
Succeeded by	Masajuro Shiokawa
Minister of Labour
In office 17 July 1980 – 30 November 1981
Prime Minister	Zenkō Suzuki
Preceded by	Takao Fujinami
Succeeded by	Takiichiro Hatsumura
Personal details
Born	(1917-01-01)1 January 1917 Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
Died	22 October 2006(2006-10-22) (aged 89) Tokyo, Japan
Alma mater	Meiji University

Masayuki Fujio (藤尾 正行 Fujio Masayuki, January 1, 1917 – October 22, 2006) was the Japanese Minister of Education, under the government of Yasuhiro Nakasone until 1986. He was a member of the right-wing Seiwa Seisaku Kenkyūkai faction of the Liberal Democratic Party, where he was described as being a "loyal vassal" to Takeo Fukuda, the founder of the faction.

In 1986, he was made Minister of Education by Prime Minister Nakasone, but he was soon fired by Nakasone after an interview with Bungei Shunju in which he made several controversial remarks about Japan's role in the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. In the interview, he questioned the criminality of the Nanjing Massacre, claiming "It is not murder under international law to kill in war". Further, he compared the Nanjing Massacre with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and implied that if Japans war time actions were wrong then so were America's.

He died of pneumonia on October 22, 2006 at the age of 89.