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Keisuke Kuwata wears a fake Hitler mustache at the start of the 2014 Red and White Song Competition, a major New Year's Eve institution in Japan.

Why did this man wear a Hitler mustache on Japanese TV? No one really knows

January 5, 2015Culture

An appearance by a beloved Japanese pop group on the country’s big New Year’s Eve song competition was supposed to a high point of the night. It was — but mostly because the group’s lead singer, Keisuke Kuwata, sported a Hitler mustache that some people think was a swipe at the prime minister.