CCP-Critic Named Japan’s Human Rights Advisor, Fulfilling Election Promise

Pro-China colleague appointed foreign minister

Japan's newly-appointed Defense Minister Gen Nakatani answers reporters' questions at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014. Shinzo Abe won endorsement Wednesday to serve another term as prime minister after winning a renewed mandate for his "Abenomics" strategies for reviving the world's third-biggest economy. Abe appointed a former military officer, Nakatani, as defense minister but kept the other members of his previous cabinet. AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Monday selected a critic of China’s ruling communist party to be his human rights advisor—a post he promised to create in an election pledge to lead a government that would be vocal about the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) human rights violations.

Local media reported on Monday that former defense minister Gen Nakatani, 64, a member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, will be officially appointed this week when a special parliamentary session convenes.