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Erin Hale

Guest house in Japan under fire for asking Israeli guests about war crimes

A crowd of tourists walks on the street near Kiyomizu-dera temple in Kyoto on March 30, 2023 [Issei Kato/Reuters]

A guesthouse in Japan says it is under pressure from local authorities to change a policy asking guests to declare that they have never committed war crimes, following complaints by Israel’s ambassador.

Israeli Ambassador Gilad Cohen has accused the WIND VILLA guest house in Kyoto of discrimination following an incident in April in which an Israeli tourist was asked to sign a pledge stating he had never “been involved in any war crimes that violate humanitarian and international law”.

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