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Yasukuni Shrine Imposes Silence on Bereaved Families

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Utsumi Aiko
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[Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro's visit to Yasukuni Shrine on August 15, the most controversial date possible, underscored Yasukuni's central place in discussions of Japanese war memory and historical reconciliation in Northeast Asia. Debate typically involves the 14 Class-A war criminals enshrined and worshipped as deities at Yasukuni, despite the late Showa emperor's recently revealed expressions of displeasure, and growing calls from overseas and within Japan to disenshrine them. There are, however, other pressing issues.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 4 , Issue 9 , September 2006 , e6
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