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© 2020 AFPSuga sends ritual offering to Yasukuni Shrine
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Spitfire
Of course.
Just like his master did every time.
u_s__reamer
Suga sends a message: social distancing himself from Yasukuni's contagious can of worms.
Peter W.
Japan's neighbors should not make a fuss about Yasukuni, but PM Suga missed a chance to become a truly respected politician.
Fighto!
Good for Suga. Japan's country, Japan's rules, Japan's right to honor their millions of dead.
Why do Japans many whining neighbors see fit to tell Japan how to honor her fallen. There all bullies, that's why.
Sh1mon M4sada
As PM, it's his obligation to respect and remember sacrifices of his own veterans.
War crimes is a separate, and independent issue, Japan's neighbours should respect that.
Yubaru
Like Abe, like Suga-son! Joined by the hip!
Yubaru
Guess you never figured out that to the neighbors, and plenty of Japanese too, they are one and the same.
Dont know much about history huh?
Richard Gallagher
Suga. An old man with a fossilized mind, unable to discern the spite that he displays by honoring dead war criminals. Another conservative right-wing reactionary.
oldman_13
Good. Every nation has a right to honour its war dead, giving a ritual offering doesn't mean you are specifically honouring Class A and B war criminals.
Grow up!
TheLongTermer
No worries..its what makes it all go around. Stability, deflation, all that good stuff
Simon Foston
Fighto!Today 04:42 pm JST
Japan's rules forbid politicians from participating in any religious activities in any official capacity.
oldman_13Today 07:46 pm JST
Are you still totally ignorant of the restrictions imposed by the Japanese Constitution, no matter how many times they're spelled out?
OssanAmerica
What exact part of the Japanese constitution states that war dead may not be honored?
Mark
it is absolutely alright for Suga even to pay personal visit to Yasukuni shrine, it is just a respect to those who die in the war. War criminals? maybe you forget about My Lai massacre, No Gun Ri massacre, Bikini island, Hiroshima, Nagasaki etc.
CaptDingleheimer
Is there any precedent for reinterment in Shinto?
It seems this entire pickle that every PM finds himself in could simply end if they'd just 'move' the several dozen war criminals someplace else, freeing the other millions of souls there to be honored uncontroversially.
Alexandre T. Ishii
Just another slogan from Japan to the world nobody are really understanding or accepting it, not to say only South Korea or China. It's controversial what this gvt. of Abe's tail is still implicating. Why all of those Japanese soldiers sacrificed in ww2 must have the same Yasukuni Shrine if the war criminals are there, too? Just separate them and pray for the only sacrificed ones in another shrine. Well, it's another political affair, easy to know it!.
Simon Foston
OssanAmericaToday 08:27 pm JST
More sanctimonious bleating about honouring the war dead, not to mention a disingenuous misrepresentation of my comment. It would be obvious what I actually meant if you quoted the first part as well.
MarkToday 08:37 pm JST
Of course it would be. It's never "personal" with the LDP, though - it's good PR. Nothing to do with respect for anyone else at all.
sf2k
Ah well it was good while it lasted... what is a ritual offering? A basket of mikan? A brown paper envelope?
gokai_wo_maneku
So Suga is a chip off the old block.
sf2k
He could have been a contender, he could have been somebody
mtuffizi
freedom of speech, freedom of visit.
Desert Tortoise
Another Japanese PM I despise.
bokuda
Convince 1 Japanese that Japan is more a criminal agent than a victim of WW2 is a waste of time.
When that 1 Japanese is 87 years old it's impossible to change any of his believes.
Simon Foston
KentarogaijinToday 04:02 am JST
In Japan there are official commemoration ceremonies every Autumn at public facilities. That's how the nation honours its war dead. If private citizens also want to go to Yasukuni Shrine that's no one's business but their own. Politicians should go as private citizens and stop making such a fanfare about it. Can you not see what their true motives are?
Simon Foston
mtuffiziToday 02:37 am JST
Why doesn't the Emperor visit, then?
OssanAmerica
You can call quoting your very own words "disingenuous misrepresentation, but you can't answer the question. Fine.
Simon Foston
OssanAmericaToday 04:23 pm JST
Yes I can, because it is.
It's a stupid question based on the insinuation that I think it's somehow unconstitutional for Japan to honour its war dead, which is patently ridiculous. I have made my understanding of the constitutional situation clear more than once. If you can't figure it out what it is from my previous comments, including recent ones in this thread, too bad because I can't be bothered to spell it out to you.
Simon Foston
Come on, Yasukuni lovers and LDP fanboys. Can you answer this question? If it's Japan's right to honour its war dead any way it chooses without criticism from people from other countries, and Japan chooses to honour its war dead with Yasukuni Shrine visits, why doesn't the Emperor visit as head of state and symbol of the nation? Could it be that the matter isn't quite as simple as you all like to make out?