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Yasukuni: Behind the Torii: From government-run shrine for war heroes to bone of contention

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Yomiuri Shimbun
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Few institutions in Japan are as contested, controversial, and complex as Yasukuni Shrine. According to a recent editorial (June 6, 2005) in the Asahi Shimbun and published in Japan Focus, “Yasukuni Shrine… in the past served the purpose of providing a site to publicly manifest both grief and admiration for those who perished in conflict. In this sense, it functioned to enhance the will to fight and mobilize the populace for war.”

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 3 , Issue 7 , July 2005 , e19
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