Do you oppose the japanese prime minister to visit the war dead temple? though war criminals are buried there?

Question

Korean and Chinese nationals are in a fit over this. Is it unethical for the head of the Japanese state to pray at the temple for past ww2 dead soldiers, this includes war criminals that were excuted for war crimes and agression to china and korea

Answer 1

The Japanese prime minister should be allowed to visit the war dead temple to honor their countrymen. Let the thing of the past be buried and countries must unite to avoid another world war.

Answer 2

Actually, there is no one buried at Yasukuni Shrine. Their spirits are invited there when people pray - and not only soldiers are enshrined there. There are also children, police, firefighters, nurses, and others who "died for the emperor."

One issue are the 14 Class A War Criminals enrshrined in 1978, but another contentious issue in Japan is whether visiting the shrine by the Prime Minister violates Article 20 of the Japanese Constitution which prevents the state from participating in religious activities. Yet another dimension is the denial of the Tokyo Trials as well as the revisionist view of history portrayed int he shrine's museum (Yushukan).

Answer 3

First of all, you have to know that Yasukuni is NOT a temple.
It is only a shrine.
There is no grave, no bone of those soldiers and no cremains.

And those criminals were already judged and got death penalty. Not only those criminals started the war. The world was warfare at that time.

Do you know other Asian nations have gone and prayed for the alter at Yasukuni shrine?
Only China and Korea protest nation widely.
http://photo.jijisama.org/YasukuniY.html

China and Korea say that Japan don't admit the past. But it is also wrong.
Japan have released apology statement many times.
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/List+of+war+apology+statements+issued+by+Japan

They are using Yasukini matter as a diplomatic card, cos they need an enemy to cast their citizen's eyes aside.
There are tons of inland problems exist there.

Today Yasukuni is just a place to worship and pray for the dead.

Answer 4

The visits seem unnecessarily insensitive to the many nations, including the US, against which those war criminals committed their atrocities. There is no long tradition of the visits, so there is no compelling reason for the PMs to visit, except to pander to a radical-conservative base -- something an American should have little difficulty understanding. (The war criminals' bodies were moved to the cemetery in the '70s, so it wasn't an issue before that.) The PMs never seem to make any statements against the war criminals who are buried there, which only seems to confirm that Japan might be developing a feeling in favor of returning to its long history of aggressive war-making. Granted, a more war-ready Japan might be a good, democratic ally for the US in a region threatened by Chinese and Koreans -- but the US should be insulted by these visits, too, as they indirectly honor men who subjected Americans and our allies to horrible, inhumane acts.

Answer 5

I remember Reagan caught all kinds of hell for agreeing to visit a german war cemetary that has SS soldiers buried there.

Gotta honor the war vets but you have to be sensitive to the needsof other countries, too. Gets complicated.

Japan won't apologize, or even acknowledge some war crimes. But who knows about politics in Asia...

Answer 6

So it is. And from the standpoint of those who fought Japan in WW II, it damages Japan's argument that they should be sorry over the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

A non sequitur maybe, but that's how it is. The Japanese are presumed not to be sorry either for Pearl Harbor, etc.

Answer 7

He is the prime minester of his country , naturally he is rightful in his freedom to choose where he wants to pray or to whom or where. ,Or is Japan a dictatorship?

Answer 8

Sorry but do germans worship hitler and put him into a shrine? Europeans will be all angry if they do that. You get my point.