Kazuhiko Togo, a retired career official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and former Ambassador to the Netherlands, is the grandson of Shigenori Togo, Japan's foreign minister at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack in December 1941.
His grandfather is one of the convicted Class-A war criminals who is enshrined at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo.
The enshrinement at this Shinto shrine that is a sacred site for Japan's war dead was done without his family's consent.