Posted on 07/03/2007 6:44:33 AM PDT by sushiman
Tojo's granddaughter vows to take on WWII issues if elected The granddaughter of wartime Prime Minister Hideki Tojo said Tuesday if she wins election later this month for a seat in the Diet she will push to strengthen the military, rewrite the history of the Rape of Nanking and move to censure the United States for dropping atomic bombs on Japan.
Yuko Tojo is seeking a seat in the Upper House of the Diet. She is running as an independent after being rejected by the ruling conservative party.
Tojo told a news conference one of her primary goals in office would be to settle issues from World War II that remain deeply controversial.
On Japan's mobilization of tens to hundreds of thousands of "comfort women" to serve in front-line brothels, Tojo said the government was not directly involved, a commonly held belief among Japanese conservatives despite evidence to the contrary.
She also said the often-cited death toll from the Rape of Nanking -- as many as 300,000 -- has been grossly inflated by the Chinese and it must be corrected.
Tojo said the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki went "beyond all the savage acts that occurred in history up until that time," and accused the United States of being racially motivated. She claimed the U.S. would not have dropped such bombs on other "white" nations.
Japan, meanwhile, went to war to "liberate people of color from the white nations in the world" who were colonizing Asia at the time, she said.
Though Tojo's positions are far right of center, her candidacy has received attention because of her family legacy.
Tojo's grandfather, Hideki Tojo, Japan's prime minister from 1941 to 1944, is widely remembered as a warmonger who was behind Tokyo's invasions of its Asian and Pacific neighbors. It was Tojo who also ordered the Pearl Harbor attack that killed 2,388 American troops and brought the U.S. into World War II.
He was hanged by the Allies in 1948 after the Tokyo war crimes tribunal
Maybe we shoulda built more than two atomic bombs in 1945. And we probably should have executed their emperor too.
Censure us? Sure, right after we censure you for attacking Pearl Harbor.
Oh, waitaminute. We did censure Japan for that. I think our emissaries that delivered the censure were called Fat Man and Little Boy.
Eat it, Tojo.
I’m surprised she didn’t say she would re-open Unit 731.
Japan has their moonbats, too.
I suppose she will have an excuse for the Batan death march as well, I don’t think the Japanese want to revisit Japans record on war crimes. The rest of us don’t want to either.
“Rewrite the history of the Rape of Nanking and move to censure the United States for dropping atomic bombs on Japan.”
Might just work with the media we have today. Truth is not an option. Course here g-daddy should have never started a fight he could not win.
On the rape of nanking is she saying the chinese raped and killed themselves?
Cool! We’ll just have to figure out how to take back everything we’ve given them to rebuild Japan. Hmm, the only way I can think to do this is to send the Enola Gay and Bocks Car back.
Perhaps she can get the Bataan Death March renamed the Bataan Happy Jaunt. If the 300,000 dead in Nanking was reduce to 200,000 would it make the Japanese actions any better?
Communist or not, there are times when I think the USA has a lot more common ground with China than with Japan. Not saying we need to switch allegiances, but the concept of “defending Japan against Chinese military aggression” really shouldn’t be a major consideration in our defense strategy and budgeting.
Proof that insanity does skip a generation...
Yeah, really smart move to piss off both the US and the ChiComs.
I suspect you’re right. No sane Japanese would want to alienate the US when they are surrounded by militarily powerful countries who still remember what a barrel of laughs the Southeast Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere was.
” Japan has their moonbats, too. “
Tell me about it ! Some are my neighbors ! ;)
Correct. No need to blame the whole country for the few.
She also said the often-cited death toll from the Rape of Nanking — as many as 300,000 — has been grossly inflated by the Chinese and it must be corrected.
So we lower that to 100,000, The Chinese will feel a lot better now!!!(sarc)
I don’t see a chance for her to come far with this, but there certainly is a pervasive ignorance and refusal of acknowledgement of WW2 in Japan.
It pains me to see Japan move into this confrontational direction against the US... at a time when Japan, USA, South Korea and Taiwan need to stand united as free states against the Chinese and North Korea.
One of the strangest things I’ve ever seen was in the Smithsonian American History museum where they have mock ups of the first two nukes. A family of “Asians” were having their picture taken in front of the bombs. I don’t know for sure that they were Japanese but they sure looked it.
Good point , on whole they have been good partners.
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