More than 50 Japanese right-wingers held a "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere National Parade" in Tokyo to celebrate German Nazi leader Adolf Hitler's birthday on April 20, 2014, the Chosun Ilbo reported.

They not only displayed the Rising Sun flag, but also held high the Nazi right-facing swastika symbol flag during a rally in the afternoon that day at East-Ikebukuro Central Park, where seven war criminals such as the notorious Toujou Hidek were hanged, before they took to the streets.

"Commemorate the 125th anniversary of the birth of Hitler," right-wingers continuously shouted. The right-wingers said at the rally that people should also commemorate the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" and punish both "ungrateful" South Korea and China.

They proposed to rebuild such a Sphere as it was once a slogan used by Japan during World War II, when Japan invaded other countries with its so-called intentions of creating a "bloc of Asian nations led by the Japanese and free of Western powers." In order to do so, commemorating Nazi Germany, their ally at that time, is an event that goes without saying, organizers said.

During the 40-minute parade, the right-wingers also shouted "Kono Statement should be re-verified" and "A re-evaluation of Nazi Germany," as well as other slogans.

Both the Nazi flag and South Korea's national flag damaged by graffiti appeared at the parade. There were anti-Korean pictures of South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Japanese comfort women, clearly clad with the words "beggars, prostitutes."

Once serving as a right-wing group's deputy representative, Hiroyuki Seto advocated, "Is there any problem with praising Hitler? Do many people still believe Hitler's Holocaust nowadays? The Nanjing Massacre and the Japanese comfort women issue are both fabricated."

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