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Yuko Tojo
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Yuko Tojo (center) as a young girl with her grandmother Katsuko and grandfather, Hideki
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Yoshie Tojo
20 May 1939 Keijō, Japanese Korea
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| Died | 13 February 2013 (aged 73) |
| Nationality | Japanese |
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| Alma mater | Kokushikan University |
| Occupation | Politician, Insurance agent |
| Employer | Dai-Ichi Insurance Company |
| Known for | granddaughter of Hideki Tojo |
| Children | 4 |
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Yuko Tojo (東條 由布子, Tōjō Yūko, May 20, 1939 – February 13, 2013) was a Japanese ultra-nationalist politician, Imperial Japanese apologist, and brief political hopeful. She was the granddaughter of General Hideki Tojo, the Japanese wartime prime minister who was convicted as a Class A war criminal and executed after World War II in 1948.
Politics
In May 2007, Tojo revealed her intention to run in the House of Councillors election at the age of 68. She ran on a far-right platform. Tojo denied Japanese war crimes during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.
Tojo was a patron of The Truth about Nanjing, a movie made with the intention to expose what the filmmaker Satoru Mizushima saw as propagandistic aspects of the Nanjing Massacre. Mizushima alleges that the 1937 Nanjing Massacre was a politically motivated fabrication by China and numerous western eyewitnesses.
Japan's nationalists, including the late former Prime Minister Shinzō Abe, distanced themselves from her.
Death
Tojo died on February 13, 2013, from interstitial pneumonia at the age of 73, ten years after her entry into politics.
"People think I'm a hawk, but I'm actually a dove on the torii of Yasukuni Shrine".
