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Yasukuni Shrine and Japan's Painful Past | Tulsa News
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Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine honors over 2.4 million wartime dead—but its inclusion of 14 Class-A war criminals, like Hideki Tojo, turns it into a flashpoint for global controversy. While Japanese families visit to mourn and remember loved ones, neighbors like China and South Korea see shrine visits as a denial of history’s pain. Once tied to State Shinto’s fusion of religion and patriotism, the shrine now stands as a symbol of Japan’s complex reckoning with its militarist past—especially with the adjacent museum accused of whitewashing atrocities. For some, it’s sacred ground; for others, a wound that refuses to heal.
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