Japan chain to pull Nazi dress
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December 8, 2010, Wednesday
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A JAPANESE discount chain said yesterday it will pull a Nazi costume from its shelves after receiving a complaint from an American Jewish organization.
The costume on sale at retailer Don Quijote Co includes a black jacket with a red swastika armband in a package adorned with a sketch resembling Adolf Hitler and the phrase "Heil Hitler" in Japanese characters. The outfit was on sale for about 5,000 yen (US$60) in at least two Don Quijote outlets in Tokyo.
Aico, a Japanese party goods maker, has made the costume for seven years and never had a complaint, said spokesman Nobuyoshi Nasuzawa. "This was meant purely as a joke, as something that would easily be recognizable. If we have complaints we will certainly stop sales."
Don Quijote said it would pull the product after receiving a letter from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish rights organization based in Los Angeles. The letter, dated on Monday, requested that sales at the store cease immediately, saying the swastika is a "symbol of hatred" and reminding the retailer that millions of Jews and other innocents were killed by the Nazis during World War II.
The costume on sale at retailer Don Quijote Co includes a black jacket with a red swastika armband in a package adorned with a sketch resembling Adolf Hitler and the phrase "Heil Hitler" in Japanese characters. The outfit was on sale for about 5,000 yen (US$60) in at least two Don Quijote outlets in Tokyo.
Aico, a Japanese party goods maker, has made the costume for seven years and never had a complaint, said spokesman Nobuyoshi Nasuzawa. "This was meant purely as a joke, as something that would easily be recognizable. If we have complaints we will certainly stop sales."
Don Quijote said it would pull the product after receiving a letter from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish rights organization based in Los Angeles. The letter, dated on Monday, requested that sales at the store cease immediately, saying the swastika is a "symbol of hatred" and reminding the retailer that millions of Jews and other innocents were killed by the Nazis during World War II.
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