![]() ![]() The movie is based on the writings of Tojo's 60-year-old granddaughter, Yuko Iwanami. For example, the Rape of Nanjing, in which more than 100,000 Chinese were killed during a spree of Japanese Imperial Army brutality in 1937-1938, is referred to as the "Nanjing Incident" in most textbooks, and the scale of the atrocities is played down. One of them, former Justice Minister Seisuke Okuno, said after a screening: "The Tokyo war crime tribunal verdict was wrong."įor years, Japanese governments have censored history textbooks and toned down various aspects of the war. ![]() Twenty-seven members of the conservative, ruling Liberal Democratic Party have praised the film. Nor are these sentiments from the political fringe. The right wing in Japan has fought to prevent the government from issuing any apologies for the war and has denied that Japan committed wartime atrocities. The people most pleased with the movie are Japanese conservatives, who have argued for years that the Allied nations provoked Japan into war.
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