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was a Japanese ultra-nationalist politician, Imperial Japanese apologist, and brief political hopeful. She was the granddaughter of General Hideki Tōjō, the Japanese wartime prime minister who was convicted of planning and orchestrating most of the major Japanese acts of aggression of World War II; for these crimes, Hideki Tojo was convicted as a Class A war criminal and hanged after World War II.〔 == Politics == In May 2007, Tojo revealed her intention to run in the House of Councillors election at the age of 68. She ran on an extreme right platform, demanding the enshrinement of all of Japan's military war dead (to include Class A war criminals such as her grandfather) at the controversial Yasukuni Shrine.〔 Tojo also adopted a policy of blanket denialism of any Japanese war crimes during World War II, which she angrily dismissed as "purely US propaganda", designed to "smear the glorious reputation of the proud and honorable Japanese warrior race (戦士のレース)". She vowed to work to throw out the Japanese constitution if elected, which bans all offensive warfare in perpetuity, with Tojo dismissing the non-offensive clause as "racist, obstructionist" and "created entirely by the hand of American manipulators" and "intended to keep the Japanese people in a slave state to Western interests". Tojo was also a particularly strong patron of ''The Truth about Nanjing'', a fringe propaganda movie in production by Japanese ultra-nationalist revisionist filmmaker Satoru Mizushima, who claims that the 1937 Nanking Massacre was completely fabricated by the United States and China in a collaborative effort to "slander the glorious exploits of the Japanese soldier" in World War II, which Mizushima (and Tojo) view as the highest point of Japanese civilization. According to Mizushima and Tojo, there were no murders or rapes ever committed in Nanking except for "a few", which were committed by "US/Chinese spies" in order to create false photographs to slander the honor of the Imperial Japanese Army. Tojo was subsequently mocked and accused of racism, conspiracy theorism and radical, antiquated ultra-conservatism by her own countrymen for her statements. Many left-of-center and centrist politicians objected strongly to her term "warrior race", a heavily-loaded racial term which has not been used since the heyday of Imperial Japan in the 1940s. "There are no war criminals in Japan", Tojo famously announced, a statement which prompted derision and mockery from the Japanese political left and embarrassment from the Japanese political right, many of whom are sympathetic to the shrine burial issue but embarrassed by the extreme nature of Tojo's other demands, such as the scrapping of the Japanese constitution. A commentator noted that " Tojo also frequently lionized her grandfather in speeches, calling Hideki Tojo "a true and honorable son of Japan", who "died clean and innocent" at the hands of a combined "United States/Chinese conspiracy". She even managed to alienate her former supporters on the right, including Prime Minister Shinzō Abe, who, despite agreeing that Japan's WWII war criminals should be re-buried among the regular soldiers, pointedly distanced himself from the remainder of Tojo's harsh racial rhetoric, especially her demands for a new constitution that would permit Japan to wage offensive war again, a concept Abe called "madness". “Tojo’s strong nationalistic attitude might appeal to certain extreme elements of the population, but most Japanese do not sympathize with her views. She has no chance at all at the elections," stated one commentator. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yuko Tojo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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