Yuko Tojo, granddaughter of Japan's wartime leader, General Hideki Tojo, poses with a family photo at her home in Tokyo
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2990 x 2016 px | 25.3 x 17.1 cm | 10 x 6.7 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
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Yuko Tojo, granddaughter of Japan's wartime leader, General Hideki Tojo, poses with a family photo taken with her grandfather when she was 2 and a portrait and photo of her grandfather at her home in Tokyo. Gen. Hideki Tojo - who ordered the attack on Pearl Harbor -- was charged and hanged as a war criminal after World War II when Yuko was just 6, and he is enshrined inside the controversial Yasukuni Shrine together with 13 other convicted war criminals. Though she remembers little of her grandfather she still regards him as a hero. "Japan did not fight a war of aggression but in self-defense, " says Ms. Tojo, widely seen as a leading figurehead in a recent surge in nationalism in Japan and who unsuccessfully ran for a seat in Japan's House of Councilors in 2007. Upon running for a seat in Japan's Upper House of Parliament, one of her main goals was to ensure all of Japan's war dead would be enshrined at the central Tokyo shrine.