YOU DON'T GET UNDER OUR SKIN; Japanese emperor shrugs off PoW protests after old soldier burns flag in defiant last stand.(News)

From: The Mirror (London, England) | Date: May 27, 1998 | Copyright information

JAPAN delivered an astonishing snub to former PoWs last night by saying their protest against the visit of Emperor Akihito "doesn't get under our skin."

Old soldier Jack Caplan set fire to the Japanese flag yesterday as hundreds of veterans of Japan's wartime horror camps defiantly turned their backs on the Emperor. There were boos, jeers, two-fingered salutes and whistled snatches of Colonel Bogey.

Akihito brushed the protest aside by smiling and waving at the crowd. Then his spokesman Kazuo Chiba, a former ambassador to Britain, stoked the flames of outrage by saying: ...

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