# Are there Neo-Japanese fascist groups in Japan?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-neo-japanese-fascist-groups-in-japan/583760
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [May 30, 2011, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-neo-japanese-fascist-groups-in-japan/583760 "2011-05-30T15:32:36Z")
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### Author:  [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2011, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-neo-japanese-fascist-groups-in-japan/583760/1 "2011-05-30T15:32:36Z")
At the end of WWII Hitler was dead, but Emperor Hirohito was still alive. I understand why the allies decided to keep Hirohito around, and this thread isn’t about that, but today there are Neo-Nazis inside Germany. Are there equivalent groups within Japan, groups that want to restore things back to way they were in the 1940s? I have never heard of such groups, but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist.
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### Author:  [@Shakester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakester)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2011, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-neo-japanese-fascist-groups-in-japan/583760/2 "2011-05-30T15:57:51Z")
[Uyoku dantai](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyoku_dantai) (右翼団体; literally “right wing groups”) are Japanese nationalist right-wing groups.
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> Most, but not all, seek to justify Japan’s role in the Second World War to varying degrees, refute the war crimes committed by the military during the pre-1945 Shōwa period and are critical of what they see as “self-hate” bias in post-war historical education. Thus, they do not recognize the legality of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East and other allied tribunals, consider the war-criminals enshrined in the Yasukuni shrine as “Martyrs of Shōwa” (昭和殉難者 Shōwa junnansha), support the censorship of history textbooks and historical revisionism.
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### Author:  [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2011, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-neo-japanese-fascist-groups-in-japan/583760/3 "2011-05-30T16:11:53Z")
Wow. That’s exactly what I was looking for. Thanks Shakester.
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### Author:  [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2011, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-neo-japanese-fascist-groups-in-japan/583760/4 "2011-05-31T00:41:50Z")
The _uyoku_ have ties to the yakuzai and also many of the far-right wing politicians.
They drive around in huge sound truck blasting out martial law and try to circle the China, Russian or Korean embassy depending about the issue on hand, and how is violating “sovereign” Japanese territory.
For the most part, they are just annoying and usually harmless, also they’ve killed some politicians who they disagree with as well as movie directors and editors.
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### Author:  [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2011, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-neo-japanese-fascist-groups-in-japan/583760/5 "2011-05-31T01:23:00Z")
> [@Shakester](#):
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> [Uyoku dantai](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyoku_dantai) (右翼団体; literally “right wing groups”) are Japanese nationalist right-wing groups.
How does 石原慎太郎 (Ishihara Shintaro) comport with 右翼団体？Is he sympathetic to their cause?
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### Author:  [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2011, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-neo-japanese-fascist-groups-in-japan/583760/6 "2011-05-31T03:02:56Z")
Ishihara is ultra right wing, and racist to boot, although smart enough to not be publicly seen with the uyoko groups.