Yuko Tojo (東條 由布子, Tōjō Yūko?, born 1939) is a granddaughter of General Hideki Tōjō, the Japanese wartime prime minister who was hanged as a war criminal after World War II. Tojo is a nationalist activist and political hopeful.
In May 2007, Tojo revealed her intention to run in the House of Councillors election, pledging to work to realize the enshrinement of all of Japan's military war dead, to include war criminals whose innocence she maintains, at the controversial Yasukuni Shrine. Her grandfather is one of the 14 Class-A war criminals honored at the Shinto shrine. She claims the war was one of self-defense and that it was unfair that her grandfather was judged a Class-A war criminal. She subsequently failed to be elected.
Tojo also heads a nonprofit organization working on environmental conservation.
She is a strong supporter of The Truth about Nanjing, a movie in production by Japanese filmmaker Satoru Mizushima that claims the 1937 Nanking Massacre was a complete fabrication by China and the West in a propaganda war against Japan.
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