The group said the poster offended religious sensitivities by associating "the symbol of absolute hatred and the symbol of absolute love".

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"The emperor was a symbol of absolute and blind obedience to authority, and that still influences the way Japanese people think, " says Sakurai of the Expel Political Misfits group.

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