Yasukuni Shrine Here's what Wikipedia has to say: Yasukuni Shrine (靖国神社, Yasukuni Jinja, "Pacifying the Nation" Shrine) is a Shinto shrine located in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. It is dedicated to the kami (spirits) of soldiers and others who died fighting on behalf of the Emperor of Japan. Currently, its Symbolic Registry of Divinities lists the names of over 2,466,000 enshrined men and women whose lives were dedicated to the service of Imperial Japan, particularly to those killed in wartime. The shrine is a source of controversy. Of the almost 2.5 million enshrined, 1,068 have been convicted of war crimes by a post World War II court. Fourteen Class-A war criminals are enshrined at Yasukuni, although two of those enshrined, Yōsuke Matsuoka and Osami Nagano, died in prison before verdicts could be handed down. The Yūshūkan—a shrine-owned
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