A US citizen who criticized Japan’s rightist movement

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An online petition urging the International Olympics Committee not to select Tokyo - one of the three finalists to host the 2020 Summer Games - has collected more than 24,000 signatures since its creation in March. The signatures come from all over the world, but the website shows that a majority were submitted by residents from South Korea, whose immigrants in Japan recently saw a spate of racial violence. 67 years have elapsed since the end of WWII. The Japanese government still has not officially acknowledged and apologised for the massive and inhumane atrocities that the Japanese Imperial Army inflicted on Asia during WWII. I urge Japan to recognise its war crimes including the Nanking Massacre and forcing hundreds of thousands of women into sexual slavery. The petition also criticised the country’s failure to address the atrocities in its textbooks, and blasted Japanese officials' visits to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine, which honours war criminals convicted by a post-second world war court.
(http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/do-not-select-tokyo-to-host-the-2020-summer-olympics.html)