【ニュース速報＋＠2ch掲示板】 炎上中 1日で2,500件 【国際】「安倍内閣の新閣僚である高市早苗氏と稲田朋美氏、ネオナチと一緒に記念撮影」…AFP通信、Japan Timeなど英字紙が一斉報道 その1 h ttp://ai.2ch.sc/test/read.cgi/newsplus/1410193291/l50 【国際】「安倍内閣の新閣僚である高市早苗氏と稲田朋美氏、ネオナチと一緒に記念撮影」…AFP通信、Japan Timeなど英字紙が一斉報道★2 その2 h ttp://ai.2ch.sc/test/read.cgi/newsplus/1410218764/l50 【国際】「安倍内閣の新閣僚である高市早苗氏と稲田朋美氏、ネオナチと一緒に記念撮影」…AFP、TIME、Guardianなど英字紙が次々報道★3 その3 h ttp://ai.2ch.sc/test/read.cgi/newsplus/1410238544/l50 【The Gurdian】 h ttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/09/neo-nazi-photos-pose-headache-for-shinzo-abe
Neo-Nazi photos pose headache for Shinzo Abe Two newly promoted political allies of Japanese PM shown smiling alongside far-right figure Kazunari Yamada
Barely a week after Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, overhauled his administration amid flagging popularity, two of his senior colleagues have been forced to distance themselves from rightwing extremism after photographs emerged of them posing with the country’s leading neo-Nazi. Sanae Takaichi, the internal affairs minister, was among a record-equalling five women selected by Abe as he attempts to make his cabinet more female voter-friendly and to increase women’s presence in the workplace. Takaichi, an Abe ally on the right of the governing Liberal Democratic party (LDP), was pictured posing alongside Kazunari Yamada, the 52-year-old leader of the National Socialist Japanese Workers party, on the neo-Nazi party’s website. A smiling Takaichi and Yamada appear together standing in front of a Japanese flag. Yamada has voiced praise for Adolf Hitler and the September 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre. In a YouTube video Yamada’s supporters are seen wearing swastika armbands, while he denies the Holocaust took place and criticises postwar Germany’s ban on the Nazi salute, accusing the country of being “no different from North Korea”. Takaichi met Yamada “for talks” at her office in the summer of 2011, according to her office. Confirming the photographs were genuine, a spokesman for Takaichi claimed her office had been unaware of Yamada’s extremist views at the time. “[He] was an assistant to an interviewer and was taking notes and photos,” a member of Takaichi’s staff told AFP. “We had no idea who he was back then but he requested a snap shot with her. [She] wouldn’t have refused such requests.” Media coverage prompted her office to request that the photographs be removed but by then they had already been widely circulated on social media.