He was a Japanese Nationalist who denied several war crimes committed by the IJN during WWII (i.e. comfort women, Rape of Nanking, bamboo torture, etc.)
Between this and Koichi Sugiyama passing away a few years ago (though good riddance for the latter), I guess that means the Dragon Quest series is pretty much dead as well.
France has a sizeable Middle Eastern population, doesn't it?
Maybe we'll get a regional variant of Kadabra that evolves into a new form called Simsalabim...