Abe's female cabinet members in neo-Nazi photos
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Japan's newly appointed Internal Affairs Minister Sanae Takaichi and two other ruling Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP) lawmakers were found to appear in photographs with a far-right figure, local media reported.
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Kazunari Yamada, a 52-year-old leader of the National Socialist Japanese Workers Party (NSJAP), poses with Shinzo Abe's Internal Affairs Minister, Sanae Takaichi, and his party's Policy Chief, Tomomi Inada. |
According to Kyodo News Agency, Takaichi was pictured posing alongside Kazunari Yamada, a 52-year-old leader of the National Socialist Japanese Workers Party (NSJAP).
The picture, showing the two people stood smiling in front of a Japanese flag, was appeared on the NSJAP's website alongside blog postings praising Adolf Hitler and the Sept. 11 attacks, which is now deleted.
The other photograph showed Yamada standing alongside Tomomi Inada, another close Abe ally who was given the powerful job of LDP policy chief.
According to the photo captions, Yamada met the two senior politicians in 2011 as he visited their offices "for talks." But both Takaichi and Inada argued that they were not aware he was the leader of a rightist group.
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