Why Japan's Shinzo Abe went to Yasukuni shrine

Shinzo Abe's visit will make relations with China worse, says the BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes Whatever Shinzo Abe says, any visit to the Yasakuni shrine by a Japanese prime minister is deeply political and sure to cause offence. In the 1960s and 70s, the spirits of scores of convicted Japanese war criminals were "enshrined" there. The most controversial were the 14 "Class A" war criminals, includ

[kazutox]

中国との緊張を高めて憲法改正につなげたい、という説

[feather303]

"Close observers of the Japanese prime minister say he is at heart a nationalist and a historical revisionist(歴史修正主義者). He believes the trials that convicted Japan's wartime leaders were "victors' justice"."

[daybeforeyesterday]

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[godmother]

BBCのルパート·ウィングフィールド·ヘイズ氏による考察：１参拝したかったから。２安倍氏の党内支持基盤が右翼から成り立っている。それらの先に、憲法改正という根本的な願望がる。右傾化が主な理由ということか。

[ono_matope]

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