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YASUKUNI SHRINE

EDITORIALS
Oct 31, 2013
Mr. Abe leaning the wrong way
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's apparent longing to visit the shrine for Japan's war dead before yearend threatens to deprive the nation of a chance to smooth relations with China and South Korea.
JAPAN
Oct 17, 2013
Japan P.M. sends offering to war-linked shrine
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has dedicated a "masakaki" decorated wooden stick offering used in Shinto rituals to Yasukuni Shrine, but did not visit the war-related shrine for the major autumn ceremony that began Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 15, 2013
War dead kin waged peace since '45
Tamami Watanabe was 7 when her father died in 1945 in the Philippines while fighting for Japan, and her memories of him are fading.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 15, 2013
Abe proxy, Cabinet trio visit Yasukuni
Three Cabinet ministers went to war-related Yasukuni Shrine on Thursday to mark the 68th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II, while Prime Minister Shinzo Abe instead made a ritual offering in an apparent effort to avoid more diplomatic friction with China and South Korea.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 14, 2013
It's time Japan acted to end the war over Yasukuni Shrine
he only thing that Japan's modern reactionaries regret about World War II is defeat. Cabinet ministers show support for this idea when they visit Yasukuni Shrine.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Aug 10, 2013
Aso's Nazi gaffe tarnishes Abe's agenda for constitutional revision
The other night at my local sushi bar conversation turned to Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso's comments about constitutional revision — specifically, his suggestion there is something to be learned from the way the Nazis revised the Weimar Constitution in 1933.
COMMUNITY / Voices / HOTLINE TO NAGATACHO
Aug 5, 2013
For the sake of Japan's future, stop glorifying past crimes at Yasukuni
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, it hurts the victims of the Imperial Japanese military's war of terror that ministers of your government and members of parliament continue to visit Yasukuni Shrine.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Aug 3, 2013
Where's the love? Japanese feel unhappy, unloved and pessimistic
The results of a Pew Opinion survey released in July 2013 found that the public mood in Japan is improving but remains "mostly one of dissatisfaction." However, that dissatisfaction is 10 percent lower than the level registered in 2007 during Shinzo Abe's first spell as premier.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 30, 2013
It's time for conservatives of Japan to get over the war
If conservatives renounced revisionist nationalism in favor of their inherited democracy, many outside of Japan could live with a more powerfully armed Japan.
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 16, 2013
U.S. experts won't be drawn out on Japan P.M. shrine visit
Two prominent U.S. experts on Japan refused Tuesday to predict how the U.S. government would react if Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits Yasukuni Shrine next month, an act that would undoubtedly add further strain to already frayed relations with China and South Korea.
EDITORIALS
May 15, 2013
Nationalism will undermine Japan
The prime minister's remarks about Yasukuni Shrine as well as his attitude toward the nation's past 'aggression' threaten to undermine international trust in Japan.

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