Just reading this story about a failed court ruling on politicians visiting Yasukuni Shrine.
Yet again, Ishihara, the Governer of Tokyo, and a rather Nationlistic chappie came out with this gems.
“As a Japanese, I go to Yasukuni Shrine to express my respect and condolences for the war dead,” he said in a statement. “I consider this ruling to be a very natural decision.”
He then went further, telling Reuters news agency that he thought Japan should station troops on a chain of disputed islands in the East China Sea known as the Senkaku islands in Japan and the Diaoyu islands in China.
“We should send our military there and if Chinese activists or North Korean agents intrude and don’t listen to orders to stop, then we should sink them,” Mr Ishihara told Reuters.
Muppet!
Thats the thing that gets on my nerves. The very day that Koizumi make a public apology (well, expressed ‘remorse’) about Japanese actions during WW2, in an international summit… and its all undone when a bunch of politicians from his own party (the ruling LDP) plus one from the opposition go and visit Yasukuni.
What would bloody solve the issue though (or at least help) is if they remove all memorials to the War Criminals who were executed. Then you would have a normal Memorial Shrine to those ordinary soldiers.
