Nationalist rumblings increase
British and Japanese ultranationalists will shrug off protests from war veterans in an unlikely show of solidarity at a controversial Tokyo memorial today, on the 65th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in the Second World War.
The British National Party member Adam Walker and France’s most famous Holocaust-denier, Jean-Marie Le Pen, will be among a group of European delegates to visit the Yasukuni Shrine, which venerates the militarists who led Japan’s brief but disastrous rampage across Asia. …
…delegates attended a conference of “patriotic organisations” in Tokyo, where they discussed the perils of immigration, climate change and Islam.
One speech warned that “environmental Marxists” are exaggerating the quantity of CO2 in the earth’s atmosphere in a plot to bring more immigrants into the advanced countries and destroy the nation state. “More and more climate immigrants are coming to Europe,” said Thibaut De La Tocnaye, a leading member of France’s National Front.
The Europeans were applauded when they advised Japan to reject mass immigration and demands that foreigners be allowed to vote in local elections. Mr Le Pen gave a speech on Islam, which he said had a “long tradition of invading other countries”. “In my country they come and demand that they be allowed to build giant mosques. That’s political, not religious.”