>>745
(2014)
Tue 9 Sep 2014 05.18 BST
Neo-Nazi photos pose
headache for Shinzo Abe
ttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/09/neo-nazi-photos-pose-headache-for-shinzo-abe

Barely a week after Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe,
overhauled his administration amid flagging popularity,
two of his senior colleagues have been forced to distance themselves from
rightwing extremism after photographs emerged of them
posing with the country’s leading neo-Nazi.

...A smiling Takaichi and Yamada appear together
standing in front of a Japanese flag.

Yamada has voiced praise for Adolf Hitler and
the September 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre.
In a YouTube video Yamada’s supporters are seen
wearing swastika armbands,
while he denies the Holocaust took place and
criticises postwar Germany’s ban on the Nazi salute,
accusing the country of being
“no different from North Korea”.