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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/japanese-hitler-outfit-dropped.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="A Nazi costume is displayed for sale at retailer Don Quijote in Tokyo (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-japanese-hitler-outfit-dropped.jpg" alt="A Nazi costume is displayed for sale at retailer Don Quijote in Tokyo (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>A Japanese discount chain has stopped selling a Nazi costume after complaints from a Jewish organisation.</p>
<p>The outfits at Don Quijote included a black jacket with a red swastika armband in a package adorned with a sketch resembling Adolf Hitler and the phrase &#8220;Heil Hitler&#8221; in Japanese characters.</p>
<p>The outfit was on sale for about 5,000 yen (£38) in at least two stores in Tokyo, including one in the upmarket Ginza shopping district.</p>
<p>Aico, a Japanese party goods maker, has made the costume for seven years and never had a complaint, said a spokesman.</p>
<p>&#8220;This was meant purely as a joke, as something that would easily be recognisable. If we have complaints we will certainly stop sales,&#8221; he said. It was not clear if Aico would now stop making the costume.</p>
<p>Don Quijote said it would drop the product after receiving a letter from the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, a Jewish rights organisation.</p>
<p>The centre requested that sales at the store cease immediately, saying the swastika was a &#8220;symbol of hatred&#8221; and reminding the retailer that millions of Jews and other innocents were killed by the Nazis during the Second World War.</p>
<p>In one store, the Nazi costume was on display alongside dozens of others, including one that resembled pop star Michael Jackson, as well as nurse and ninja outfits.</p>
<p>An online search showed the costume was also available through small retailers hosted on shopping sites such as Amazon Japan.</p>
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