Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japan’s war dead, including convicted World War II war criminals, has again been vandalized
Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japan’s war dead, including convicted World War II war criminals, has again been vandalizedA blue sheet covers a stone pillar on which graffiti was found at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japan’s war dead, including convicted World War II war criminals, was vandalized again overnight Monday.
“It is deplorable that an act seeking to denigrate the shrine’s dignity has happened again,” the shrine said in a statement.Neither the police nor the Shinto shrine would go into details of the latest vandalism, saying an investigation was ongoing. Japanese media reports said graffiti reading “toilet” in Chinese, written with what appeared to be black markers, was found Monday morning on a stone pillar near the shrine’s arch.see Yasukuni as a symbol of militarismConvicted Class A war criminals, including Hideki Tojo, Japan’s wartime prime minister, are among the 2.5 million Japanese war dead enshrined at Yasukuni. The shrine itself, a dramatic-looking building with sweeping roofs, also includes in its groundsEvery year on Aug.
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