is a small
neo-Nazi political party in Japan
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. It is headed by Kazunari Yamada, who maintains a website and blog which includes praise for
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and the
September 11 attacks
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.
Pictures of Yamada, a
Holocaust-denier, posing with Cabinet minister
Sanae Takaichi and
LDP policy research chief
Tomomi Inada
is a Japanese lawyer and politician serving as a member of the Japanese House of Representatives, representing the 1st Fukui Prefecture since September 2005. She previously served as the 14th Japanese Minister of Defense from August 2016 to Jul ...
were discovered on the website and became a source of controversy; both have denied support for the party.
Beliefs
In the 1990s, the group campaigned for the expulsion of visa overstayers in Japan. The NSJWP campaigns against what it believes to be
Jewish influence on both the world stage and in Japan's national affairs. The party advocates the abolishment of the monarchy and the restoration of the
shōgun
, officially , was the title of the military dictators of Japan during most of the period spanning from 1185 to 1868. Nominally appointed by the Emperor, shoguns were usually the de facto rulers of the country, though during part of the Kamak ...
ate, as it believes that the
Imperial House of Japan became subservient to international Jewry following
World War II
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, and believes that the shogunate is the Japanese equivalent of the
Führer principle. The NSJWP also campaigns against
economic refugees,
race mixing
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, and
Freemasonry
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. The party also campaigns for what it calls "
corporatistic autarky
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Autarky as an ideal or method has been embraced by a wide range of political ideologies and movements, especiall ...
".
The NSJWP is also
Turanist,
,
anti-communist,
anti-Korean,
anti-Chinese,
anti-Russian
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, and
anti-American
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Political scientist Brendon O'Connor at the United States Studies Centr ...
.
See also
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References
External links
*
– ''A Japanese Neo-Nazi'' a short documentary about the party by
VICE Japan
{{Neo-Nazism
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Anti-communist organizations in Japan