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YASUKUNI

COMMENTARY / Japan
May 1, 2013
Please, no more Yasukuni visits
For the White House to welcome Japan to the TPP talks and to tell China to back off on the Senkakus, while Japan's top leaders visit Yasukuni Shrine, is ridiculous.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Apr 28, 2013
Abe-history: Premier again seems set on stoking controversy and ire
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is no stranger to historical controversy. Back in 2001 he pressured national broadcaster NHK to revise a documentary about the judgment of an international people's tribunal regarding the war responsibility of Emperor Hirohito (posthumously known as Emperor Showa). And in 2007...
JAPAN
Apr 24, 2013
Record 168 lawmakers visit Yasukuni
A record 168 Diet members visit Tokyo's war-linked Yasukuni Shrine, following visits by three Cabinet ministers and offerings by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 17, 2013
Japan must re-learn its militarist past
Japan's conservative rulers will need a more capacious sense of history if they are to succeed in building new bridges with the country's Asian neighbors.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 29, 2013
Abe reportedly won't visit controversial shrine for spring ceremony
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is not likely to visit Yasukuni Shrine during an important Shinto ceremony this spring but instead will dedicate a ritual implement to the controversial Tokyo shrine, which honors the nation's war dead, including Class-A war criminals, government sources indicated Friday.
JAPAN
Feb 16, 2013
Tojo's granddaughter, Yuko, dies at 73
Yuko Tojo, the granddaughter of executed Class-A war criminal Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, dies of interstitial pneumonia at age 73.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 16, 2013
Rewriting history is unwise
Prime Minister Abe Shinzo has appointed a Cabinet that, according to press reports, contains a number of ministers who want to rewrite the history of the 20th century. They, including the new minister of education, are reported as demanding the rescinding of the statement made in 1995 by former Prime...
JAPAN
Jun 8, 2005
Kono warns Koizumi about Yasukuni visits
House of Representatives Speaker Yohei Kono indirectly urged Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Tuesday to stop visiting Yasukuni Shrine, Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers said.

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