My Grandfather the War Criminal

[matsuki]

Hope this isn't a repost...this dude has some balls (or just crazy?) to go in there alone like that.

[Russell]

Photo of man dressed as Tojo at LDP conference causes stir online

A picture has emerged on social media purporting to show a man dressed as General Hideki Tojo, the prime minister who ordered the attack on Pearl Harbor, saluting at a weekend conference, sparking outrage online.

General Tojo was among those executed for war crimes and later honored at the Yasukuni shrine.

The picture that surfaced on Twitter appeared to show a man dressed in period military garb saluting while standing on a campaign car for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)—sparking a backlash online.

“Does this mean the LDP tolerates this?” @hatsunoji wrote.

Said online user @okchibita: “This is not even a bad joke. I cannot believe this was done by the ruling party.”

The picture was believed to have been taken at a weekend conference organized by an Internet broadcaster, which Abe had briefly attended earlier in the day.

The huge two-day event, attended by more than 120,000 people, had dozens of booths sponsored by a wide variety of organisations including political parties, gaming firms and the country’s sumo association.

An LDP spokesman said he was unaware that the unidentified man was dressed to appear like Japan’s wartime leader.

“If we had known that he meant to be dressed up like Tojo, we would have had second thoughts about letting him get up there,” he told AFP.

A person claiming to be the man in the photo apologized on Twitter Monday and claimed he was simply dressed as a military policeman.

“There was the campaign car which people were allowed to climb on,” wrote the person, identified as @vice0079. “I was guided by LDP staff.”

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LOL. It is apparently considered normal by the LDP if someone dresses up like a "military policeman" from the WW2 era...

[Mike Oxlong]

Japan war criminals claimed innocence before execution: U.S. records

Many Japanese war criminals convicted in a U.S. military tribunal in the Philippines after World War II claimed they were innocent and expressed unhappiness with their death sentences in their last words, according to copies of U.S. military records recently found in Japan.

The rare records, providing insights into how Class-B and Class-C Japanese war criminals reacted to their sentences, have been discovered in the form of a microfiche at the National Archives of Japan by Kenji Nagata, professor of criminal law at Kansai University. The original copies are kept at the U.S. National Archives.

Revealed in the records were details of 58 Japanese soldiers who were sentenced to death in the Manila tribunals from December 1945 and executed between April and December the following year.

http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2015/11/386557.html

[wagyl]

What percentage of those executed in the modern day in the United States express unbridled joy with their death sentences in their last words, and proclaim their guilt?

[matsuki]

Photo of man dressed as Tojo at LDP conference causes stir online

A picture has emerged on social media purporting to show a man dressed as General Hideki Tojo, the prime minister who ordered the attack on Pearl Harbor, saluting at a weekend conference, sparking outrage online.

General Tojo was among those executed for war crimes and later honored at the Yasukuni shrine.

The picture that surfaced on Twitter appeared to show a man dressed in period military garb saluting while standing on a campaign car for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)—sparking a backlash online.

“Does this mean the LDP tolerates this?” @hatsunoji wrote.

Said online user @okchibita: “This is not even a bad joke. I cannot believe this was done by the ruling party.”

LOL. It is apparently considered normal by the LDP if someone dresses up like a "military policeman" from the WW2 era...

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