Regarding the Oct. 24 article "Vivisectionist recalls his day of reckoning": I can only congratulate Japanese war survivors (like former army surgeon Ken Yuasa) for coming forward to admit to, and repent of, how far they went in putting into practice what they believed to be their orders.
Of course, people in Japan suffered their share, too, just as any other country that, willingly or not, embarks on war. Yet, to admit to atrocities such as vivisection requires courage that neither anonymous nationalists nor bureaucrats have.
May such courage eventually lead to the souls of Yasukuni Shrine being able to rest in peace, without disturbance by those who should have never been enshrined there in the first place.
pamela ravasio
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