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Japan's cabinet to snub nationalists
posted Saturday, 11 August 2007
Care of Kyodo News.
If this proves to be true it will be yet another very welcome nail in the coffin of both Japan's discredited nationalists and China's perpetually petulant Fenqing. Both of whom attempt to use Shrine visits to by public figures in order to lend their their misguided causes a false air of legitimacy. Making out that support for the Shrine is support for their cause.
If this comes into play, it could be one of the most significant snubs of Japan's discredited nationalist associations with the Shrine since 1978; when Showa Tenno (the late Emperor Hirohito) so publicly humiliated them by refusing to worship at the Yasukuni after discovering that executed class A war criminals were named there, and 1989; when the reigning Emperor rose to the thrown and chose to continue the Imperial boycott.
No cabinet minister to visit Yasukuni Aug 15
None of the 16 ministers in the cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plan to visit the war-related Yasukuni Shrine next Wednesday the Aug. 15 anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II, they respectively said Friday.
It is believed to be the first time that no cabinet members will pay tribute at the Tokyo Shinto shrine on Aug 15 since the mid-1950s, when it became customary for cabinet members to do so on that anniversary. Abe, too, is expected to forgo visiting the shrine enshrining Japan's war dead and Class-A war criminals on Wednesday, according to political sources.
None of the 16 ministers in the cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plan to visit the war-related Yasukuni Shrine next Wednesday the Aug. 15 anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II, they respectively said Friday.
It is believed to be the first time that no cabinet members will pay tribute at the Tokyo Shinto shrine on Aug 15 since the mid-1950s, when it became customary for cabinet members to do so on that anniversary. Abe, too, is expected to forgo visiting the shrine enshrining Japan's war dead and Class-A war criminals on Wednesday, according to political sources.
If this proves to be true it will be yet another very welcome nail in the coffin of both Japan's discredited nationalists and China's perpetually petulant Fenqing. Both of whom attempt to use Shrine visits to by public figures in order to lend their their misguided causes a false air of legitimacy. Making out that support for the Shrine is support for their cause.
If this comes into play, it could be one of the most significant snubs of Japan's discredited nationalist associations with the Shrine since 1978; when Showa Tenno (the late Emperor Hirohito) so publicly humiliated them by refusing to worship at the Yasukuni after discovering that executed class A war criminals were named there, and 1989; when the reigning Emperor rose to the thrown and chose to continue the Imperial boycott.
View Comments/Add a Comment (2)
1. Ant left...
Saturday, 16 August 2008 1:49 am :: http://www.chineseantfarm.blogspot.com
Indeed,ACB, this definitely takes the sting out the vile scorpionic
nationalists in both China and Japan, and I definitely welcome that. Thank
you for your insight into China's mainstream press eliding the matter of
Abe's plans not to visit Yasukuni. I had not been aware of this.
2. ACB left...
Saturday, 16 August 2008 2:07 am
Hmmm, you might want to check the date. This was last August. However, you
might be pleased to hear that Abe's successor has also made the same pledge
for this year.