Hideaki Kase is a Japanese revisionist, who is known for praising Kamikaze pilots, and claiming that Japan's actions in World War II were justifiable.
In an interview with BBC journalist Bethan Jinkinson, Kase said: "The majority of our people believe that Japan was forced into war by the United States. America was making unreasonable demands upon us. So we were fighting a war of national self-defence".
His father, Toshikazu Kase, was in the Foreign Ministry under Shigenori Togo that negotiated an end to the war.
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