Yup, Nazism is alive and well in Japan, as evidenced by this swastika-bedecked collection box(?).

Of course I'm only kidding. The swastika (in both counter-clockwise, as seen here, and Nazi-style clockwise forms) is actually an ancient symbol with various meanings, most frequently "sun" or "good luck". In Buddhism, the symbol stands for "Buddha's feet", and in Japan is used on maps to mark the locations of Buddhist temples, while the torii gate symbol marks the locations of Shinto shrines, a cross marks Christian churches, and a Star of David marks Jewish temples. The symbol is known as a "manji" in Japan.

In December 2003, Microsoft released a utility to remove the two manji characters from the Bookshelf Symbol 7 font (designed by Japanese firm Ricoh), while leaving the Star of David and the torii. I have no problem with them releasing this tool as an optional download for use by those who were inappropriately offended by the manji (though I would have preferred it just reverse them to be counter-clockwise as is a typical convention post-WWII for non-Nazi uses of the symbol), but in February 2004, in an attack of political correctness, they pushed out the character deletion as a Critical Update, which is pretty absurd.