Yes, noble Japan, honouring the 2 million noble war criminals who died attempting to subjugate its neighbourhood in Asia and responsible for the massacre of millions of Chinese, Koreans, Indonesians, Malays, …
*Private corporation. The government was separated from religion in many ways in the post war and Yasukuni is actually owned by a private organization.
The whole thing is further complicated by it basically being kinda like Arlington Cemetery except that it also contains some really reprehensible people (though I’m sure Arlington isn’t free of that, either). I’ve never been personally.
Yes, noble Japan, honouring the 2 million noble war criminals who died attempting to subjugate its neighbourhood in Asia and responsible for the massacre of millions of Chinese, Koreans, Indonesians, Malays, …
*Private corporation. The government was separated from religion in many ways in the post war and Yasukuni is actually owned by a private organization.
The whole thing is further complicated by it basically being kinda like Arlington Cemetery except that it also contains some really reprehensible people (though I’m sure Arlington isn’t free of that, either). I’ve never been personally.