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Visits to the Yasukuni Shrine by Japanese leaders always generate heated debate. Numerous war dead are enshrined at Yasukuni, among them several Class A war criminals, most notably wartime prime minister Gen. Hideki Tojo. Praying at Yasukuni, seen as a symbol of Japan’s wartime militarism, is always met by harsh criticism from China and South Korea, two of the nations most affected by Japanese aggression during the Second World War.1 It is interpreted as proof of Japan’s unwillingness to come to terms with its wartime past and its failure to offer sincere apologies and to abandon a revisionist view of its militarist history. In short, a trip to Yasukuni rekindles the fear of rising nationalist sentiments in the former aggressor and is viewed with utmost distrust in the region.
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Elsen, K. (2014). Universal and Asian Values in East Asian Regionalism: Japan’s ‘New Asianism’ after the Cold War. In: Dessein, B. (eds) Interpreting China as a Regional and Global Power. Politics and Development of Contemporary China Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137450302_7
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