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Yasukuni Shrine |
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Yasukuni Shrine is a Shinto shrine in central Tokyo that
commemorates Japan's war dead. The shrine was founded in 1869
with the purpose of enshrining those who have died in war for
their country and sacrificed their lives to help build the
foundation for a peaceful Japan.
The spirits of about 2.5
million people, who died for Japan in the conflicts accompanying
the Meiji Restoration, in the Satsuma Rebellion, the First
Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War, the First World War,
the Manchurian Incident, the Second Sino-Japanese War and the
Pacific War, are enshrined at Yasukuni Shrine in form of written
records, which note name, origin and date and place of death of
everyone enshrined.
A political controversy surrounds
Yasukuni Shrine because since 1978, fourteen class A war
criminals have been among the 2.5 million people enshrined at
Yasukuni. Furthermore, the official visits by several Japanese
prime ministers and cabinet members to the shrine since 1975
have been causing concerns regarding a violation of the
principle of separation of church and state.
Next to the
shrine buildings stands the Yushukan, a large museum that
commemorates Japan's wars from a conservative Japanese
perspective with detailed information in English. Around the
shrine grounds stand hundreds of cherry trees including Tokyo's
representative cherry tree that is used by the meteorological
agency to pronounce the official opening of the blossoms in the
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Kudankita |
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35.69413, 139.74384 |
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