• Keeping the fire stoked: Members of South Korean conservative civic groups prepare to burn an effigy of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Thursday as part of a protest against visits by a record number of Japanese lawmakers last week to Tokyo's contentious Yasukuni Shrine. | AP
    Keeping the fire stoked: Members of South Korean conservative civic groups prepare to burn an effigy of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Thursday as part of a protest against visits by a record number of Japanese lawmakers last week to Tokyo's contentious Yasukuni Shrine. | AP
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To all the Japanese people,

Life is comparable to a spiritual drama that in retrospect can be recalled as a series of happy, sad and bitter memories. However, the Japanese, perhaps more than any other people, appear to want to forget those most unpleasant of memories as quickly as possible. And this, I believe, ultimately threatens the wellbeing of all Asians.

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