Who was Japanese war criminal Nobusuke Kishi? (i.e., the maternal grandfather of the current prime minister of Japan...)

Question: How many CIA Nazis does it take to run a country?

Answer: None, we recruit them off death row, locally, G!(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobusuke_Kishi#Prisoner_of_Sugamo)

He was called “America’s Favorite War Criminal” by US scholar Michael Schaller in an academic paper published in 1995 (http://www.jpri.org/publications/workingpapers/wp11.html; that link has been taken down (moved with no redirect?), but they are archived here:  https://web.archive.org/web/20180203203341/http://www.jpri.org/publications/workingpapers/wp11.html

Other papers: https://jpri.org/publications/working-papers/

However, you might call him “CIA’s favorite Japanese Nazi”. That is not to brandish the term “Nazi” around in an uneducated manner (see below) or a cheap shot personal attack on the war criminal who was referred to as the “ghoul of Showa” (Showa was the era name) in Japan. Still, such a rephrasing basically just begs the question as to who the CIA is, and why call the him a Nazi instead of a Japanese imperialist fascist, for example. We don’t, for example, call Mussolini a Nazi, right? The Nazis were just the most archetypal representation of this group of fascist monsters, each requiring particular research into the specific circumstances of their appearance and distinguishing characteristics.

The CIA had a habit of recruiting war criminals into high level positions of administrations they set up after WWII, nominally to fight communism. The CIA placed a former Nazi officer in charge of the intelligence agency in West Germany (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhard_Gehlen, ). Gehlen, in turn, recruited other war criminals, including SS officers like Emil Augsburg, etc. (https://ips-dc.org/the_cias_worst-kept_secret_newly_declassified_files_confirm_united_states_collaboration_with_nazis/).  And they tried to hide other war criminals to protect their anti-communist racket (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/documents-cia-hid-nazis-locations/).

So, this Japanese ghoul of Showa named Nobusuke Kishi was a Class A war criminal who would have been executed, in all probability, had the CIA not made him an offer he literally couldn’t refused.

Why was he called the ghoul of Showa? Well, he was the highest civilian authority in the puppet country called Manchukoku (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobusuke_Kishi#/media/File:Manchukuo_map_1939.svg) set up in Manchuria by the Japan imperial army. Manchukoku is where the infamous Unit 731 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731), a covert biological and chemical warfare facility that conducted human experimentation was located. Here is the list of Nazi facilities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_human_experimentation.

In terms of a direct comparison to Nazis, Nobusuke Kishi was basically the equivalent of the top civilian Nazi in Poland, an individual named Hans Frank: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Frank. Frank was sentenced to death for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Kishi formed close ties with Nixon as prime minister.

In the hereditary political system the CIA set up after WWII using Kishi Kishi is the grandfather of the current front man serving as prime minister, Shinzo Abe 

(http://chinamatters.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-ghost-at-abe-trump-banquet-nobusuke.html). I've I've described on this blog, the CIA is currently grooming the scion of former prime minister Junichiro Koizumi as its next 'Manchurian candidate' for the premiership. Abe has made him the minister in charge of the environment...

Without dwelling any further on this individual and the CIA’s legacy in Japan, I’ll finish with a link to a 2017 article in the progressive US political magazine Jacobin by Lisa Torio about untranationalists in Japan and the ‘Nippon Kaigi’ called “Abe's Japan is a Racist, Patriarchal Dream”: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/03/abe-nippon-kaigi-japan-far-right.