"Tamogami claimed that other members of the Japanese government and military share his views.Tamogami was dismissed with a 60 million yen allowance  due to an essay he published on October 31, 2008, arguing that "it is a false accusation to say (Japan) was an aggressor nation" during World War II and that it was rather drawn into the war by Chiang Kai-shek and Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had allegedly been manipulated by the Comintern.