In March the Asian Reporter had a story on what can only be Japanese Nazi sympathizers, vandalizing Anne Frank books[Download here] :
300+ Anne Frank books
vandalized in Tokyo libraries
TOKYO (AP) — Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl and scores of books about the young Holocaust victim have been vandalized in Tokyo public libraries. The damage was mostly in the form of dozens of ripped pages in the books. Librarians have counted more than 300 damaged books at 31 municipal libraries since the end of January.
Guess this puts pay to the idea that Japanese or anyone involved with a Japanese can't be a racist. The article goes on to remind us of Japan and Germany's alliance during WWII:
Japan and Nazi Germany were allies in World War II, and though Holocaust denial has occurred in Japan at times, the motive for damaging the Anne Frank books is unclear. Police are investigating.
The historical alliance aside, it's still boggling that anyone would feel this motivated.
More recently arrests have been made:
http://time.com/24885/man-arrested-in-anne-frank-book-vandalism-in-tokyo/
Man Arrested in Anne Frank Book Vandalism in Tokyo
(TOKYO) — Police on Friday arrested a man for allegedly tearing pages out of books related to Anne Frank at a Tokyo library.
More than 300 books related to the Holocaust victim, including “The Diary of a Young Girl,” have been found vandalized recently at libraries across Japan’s capital.
Tokyo police said the man, 36, sneaked into a library on Feb. 5 and ripped pages from 23 Frank-related books, including at least one copy of the diary. Some of the ripped pages were found in a plastic bag at an unidentified house in Tokyo.
Police said the suspect admitted to ripping the pages out of the books, but that his motive was unclear. They didn't release the suspect's name.
Frank wrote her diary during the two years her family hid from the Nazis during World War II. She was 15 when she died in a concentration camp in 1945. Her father survived and published the diary, which has become the most widely read document to emerge from the Holocaust.
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One sleazebag down. How many more to go? Because he didn't do all 300 on his own.
Will watch for updates.
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