Abe's female cabinet members in neo-Nazi photos
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"He (Yamada) visited Takaichi at the Diet members' office building as an assistant to a magazine interviewer and asked her to be in a photograph with him," Takaichi's office said.
The group's website also posted a photograph of Yamada posing with another LDP lawmaker, Shoji Nishida.
Though Takaichi and Inada moved to distance themselves from the neo-Nazi leader after the photographs emerged, it is generally known the two women figures are right-wing lawmakers who shares Abe's attitudes on history and whose records suggest that, on certain issues, they may stand even further to the right.
Both Takaichi and Inada have paid frequent visits to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine that honors Japan's war dead, including 14 convicted Class-A war criminals.
After taking the current position last week, Inada said immediately that the Kono Statement should be revised.
The Kono Statement was made in 1993 by then-Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono, and acknowledges the involvement of the Japanese military in the recruitment of the system of sexual slavery.
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