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Holocaust denier establishes party in Japan
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by ryan | June 6, 2007 at 10:58 am
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The President of Iran has made Holocaust denial vogue again. Now, this Japanese politician follows suite and is poised to launch his own political party. Will the pursuit of 'nuclear power' be next?
Holocaust denier establishes party in JapanRichard Koshimizu claims no Jews were murdered during World War II, and that Hitler was funded and protected by Jews. Anti-Semite political activist to deliver public speech at State-funded venue this week. A Japanese political activist who holds
radical anti-Semitic views, Richard Koshimizu, has set up a political
party named "Independence Party," and is planning to deliver a public
speech in the city of Kyoto this week.
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at 11:18 on June 6th, 2007
Ryan, great find. Unusual though the political landscape can be in Japan, this one is really odd. It's not like the Holocaust is really a matter of opinion at this point, as the work- and death camps can be easily visited by anyone, and there are survivors (and, indeed, guards) who are still living. Also, moving over ten million people (not just Jews died in the Holocaust) in secret is just, well, impossible.
Disclosure: my grandparents were survivors of the death camps; my grandmother, who's still alive, refers to Mengele as "a bad man".