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Japanese PM visits Yasukuni Shrine

he does it every year.

it's ok, irie saaya will patch up relations with other asian nations.
 
Originally posted by: blustori
I thought there would be some opposition since they did after all kill many Americans at Pearl Harbor.
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I think most people are aware of what happened. Are you trying to stir up a debate?

"But Mr Koizumi insists he is going as a private citizen and only wants to honour the millions of Japanese killed in the war and pray for peace."
 
If you're expecting Koizumi to not piss off the rest of Asia that harbors bad blood against the Japanese you better keep on dreaming...

This guy doesn't let anybody get in his way.
 
Originally posted by: tk149
I'd rather have a world leader remember the past than try to forget about it.
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well said...they should be allowed to visit the location. after all he's not praising them or anything, just paying a visit
 
"The Yasukuni Shrine is a Shinto shrine located in Tokyo that commemorates Japan's war dead.

The shrine was founded in 1869 as Tokyo Shokonsha, and was renamed Yasukuni Shrine in 1879. It was build in order to commemorate and worship those who have died in war for their country and sacrificed their lives to help build the fundament for a peaceful Japan (the meaning of Yasukuni is "peaceful country")."


Nothing wrong with honoring the dead, people who followed what their leaders told them to do. Just the same as soldiers in the USA do.

The only contrversy I see is having the 14 war criminals also honored there.



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Originally posted by: OS
for the history ignorant, this is roughly like if the german PM went to a nazi grave.
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Not the same.
Koz is visiting a shrine honoring all who died in war, and praying for peace. He is not (or at least he says and I believe him when he does) honoring the equivilant of hitler.



 
I can see both sides - but the side offended seems to be overbored in protest. We shouldn't accept the best but we can't forget it either. *Shrugs*
 
Most asian countries are scared that japan might become militarily capable to invade again if the nationalist sentiment runs strong again.

I don't see how japan can invade other asian countries again (at least in east asia) even if the pacifist constitution is removed. With that said, yeah, this is really nothing new. Japanese PMs visit the shrine every year and then the asian countries get pissed. And then things get quiet until he visits again.
 
Originally posted by: alphatarget1
Most asian countries are scared that japan might become militarily capable to invade again if the nationalist sentiment runs strong again.

I don't see how japan can invade other asian countries again (at least in east asia) even if the pacifist constitution is removed. With that said, yeah, this is really nothing new. Japanese PMs visit the shrine every year and then the asian countries get pissed. And then things get quiet until he visits again.
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No, most people in asian nations outside Japan just have working memories.


 
Some folks are always looking for a reason to get pissed off.

That being said, I am skeptical of the man's intentions by going to the shrine.

I think that if Japan went ahead and came clean about all the atrocities they committed during the war, and apologized to all that were offended, it would go a long way towards the healing.
They committed some of the worst atrocities of the war....maybe they didn't kill as many people as the Nazis or Stalin, but what they did to people was just as bad.
 
i think he's within his right to visit the shrine. whatever their old war atrocities were, those soldiers still fought and died for their country.

 
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