Truth of Yasukuni

Recently, the prime minister Shinzo Abe visited Yasukuni shrine. Lots of media criticized his visit. For example, Washington Post criticized that the prime minister visited the "war shrine". However, it's not true at all.

Actually, the name Yasu-kuni stands for "make the country peace." People visit Yasukuni shrine in order to pray for peace! Not for war!

Indeed, people labeled as war criminals are also laid to rest there. However, Japanese people don't regard them as heroes just as Korean and Chinese government say. We pray in order to cleanse their spirit not to repeat the war again. The worse the spirits are, the more we should pray for them. This thought sounds strange for you, but it's a style of Shinto. See "Harae" article in Wikipedia for more information.

As praying not to repeat the war again is a good thing, vast majority of Japanese people don't criticize the prime minister's visit to Yasukuni. Left wings only do!

The concept of Harae is not familiar to those who live in other countries, left wings use it for political purposes and intend to misinform the people so that they criticize Japan. Japanese left wings are strongly connected to Korea and China, they act in order to benefit those countries. Their intention is to attack Japan. For me, they seem to increse tention amongst Japan and its neibours. They must desire war.

The article seems really strange for me, a bog-standard Japanese, because we do not call the Japan army as the imperial army. The latter term is popular amongst China and Korea. Japanese people know that the emperor was not a central character of the war, but the Japan army made use of the emperor. So, people other than left wings don't use such a term.

Please do not deceived by such negative propaganda. Japanese people really want peace of the world.

Korea must apologize

South Korean media like to commend Germany's of their apology and compensation for the World War II in order to accuse Japan like "See Germany still apologizes for the war crime, but Japan doesn't!" Korean media often ask Japan to express more apoligy and pay more compensation as if Korea was a victim from Japan. But it's totally a wrong idea. Why? Because Korea was a part of Japan, and fought with Japan. Korea was involved in the war, took part in what Japan did during the war. So, Korea had same responsibility as Japan. Korea should apologize instead of accusing Japan.

To understand Korea's position during WWII, it helps to compare Korea with Belguim. Belguim was also merged to Germany during WWII and faught together with, very much just like Korea during WWII. What Belguim has done after the war? Let's read the following news article.

Belgium’s PM apologizes for state’s Holocaust-era complicity - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper

Belguim apologized for what they did with Germany during WWII. See what Korea is doing now. Korea has not apologized at all. Korea has always asked Japan's apology and compensation. Even worse, they have faked stories of comfort women to exaggerate what Japan did during WWII.

What do you think?

Story of Japanese refugees raped in Korea

While Korean people blame Japan as if Koreans didn't do anything wrong in the past, however, reality was not just what they say. You can find what they had done to Japanese people in the following Youtube video.



Feel sad? No matter how much Koreans cry out against Japan, it's not possible to sweep the whole thing under the carpet. We will never forget!