The granddaughter of wartime Prime Minister Gen. Hideki Tojo said Tuesday in Tokyo that if she wins a seat in this month's House of Councilors election, she will submit a resolution to the Diet slamming the United States for the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
Yuko Tojo, 68, expressed outrage against Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma for making comments that were interpreted as justifying the atomic bombings and welcomed news of his resignation while she was speaking at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan.
"Many people, including Kyuma, believe that the atomic bombs stopped Japan's 'aggression,' but Japan did not fight a war of aggression," said Tojo, who claimed the war was fought to liberate the "nonwhite" colonies in Asia from the "whites."