A leading Jewish rights group on Monday asked the popular Japanese pop band Kishidan to apologze for dressing up in outfits which looked a lot like Germany’s SS or Nazi Party uniforms on a TV program, the Jewish human rights group said it disrespects the Holocaust victims.

The group Kishidan was on a interview which aired on MTV Japan on Feb.23, they were asked to stop wearing Nazi-like attire. In a statement the Los Angeles based Simon Wiesenthal Center expressed it’s shock and dismay over the group. Rabbi Abraham Cooper, an associate dean of the centre said “such garb like the uniform worn by Kishidan is never tolerated in the mainstream of any civilized country outside of Japan”.

Cooper also said As someone who has visited Japan over 30 times, I am fully aware that many young Japanese are woefully uneducated about the crimes against humanity committed during World War II by Imperial Japanin occupied- Asia, let alone about Nazi Germany’s genocidal ‘Final Solution’ against the Jews in Europe,” he also added to his statement “But global entities like MTV and Sony Music should know better,”

Kishidan is a six member boy band who are often known for wearing Japanese school uniforms in the style of “bosozoku” motorcycle gangs. You can see the photo above of them wearing the “Nazi Attire” and I agree, it does look extremely similar to the Nazi uniforms of the war. What do you think of this complaint?

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