We chose this hotel since it was close to the airport and had a free airport shuttle. When we arrived we learned the shuttle only runs in the morning and the evening, which was useless to us as our flight left in the afternoon. Very frustrating since we now had to haul our bags ourselves via the metro.
The room was tiny but clean, but I was very shocked to find two books left out in the room (and available for sale, I later discovered) written by Seiji Fuji, the pen name of the president of this hotel chain. The book was full of all kinds of absurd claims like the Nanking massacre was invented by the Chinese, the comfort women of WWII were happy, well paid prostitutes who enjoyed playing sports in their free time, and a "sorry not sorry" explanation of Pearl Harbor and the claim that the US blew up the USS Arizona themselves and blamed Japan.
People are entitled to their own crazy opinion, but putting this kind of offensive writing in a hotel room used by many foreigners is in bad taste. My grandmother and her family were imprisoned in a Japanese concentration camp during the war, and I was very offended by this blatant rewriting of history, especially under the guise of "educating foreigners on the real history of Japan." If I had known, I never would have booked this hotel and supported this kind of ridiculous nonsense. I enjoyed my time in Japan and the friendliness of Japanese people, but this ended our vacation on a sour note.
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