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Yasukuni Shrine Imposes Silence on Bereaved Families

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ID2132007
AuthorsUtsumi Aiko (corresponding author)
Year2006
Volume4
Issue9
Publication date2006-09-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJapan focus (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1557-4660 • E-ISSN: 1557-4660
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1557466006005407
OpenAlexW4410180583
LanguageEN
Citations received1

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

Aesthetics · Genealogy · Psychoanalysis · Silence · History · Japanese History and Culture · Philosophy · Psychology

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