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.JPG "The truck carries the slogan \"One man, one murder\", a slogan that was used by Japanese terrorists in the 1930s. Every member of right-wing associations was supposed to kill one \"evil politician\" or \"evil advisor\" of the Emperor, even he himself would lose his life as a consequence of the assasination. In the long run, the strategy was supposed to free the country of selfish and evil politicians. Whether the slogan, which calls for assassinations, is appropriate in public today, seems doubtful. However, the Japanese police obviously does not see any reason to act.")
.JPG "On the shrine precincts, there are many sub-memorials for special groups of war dead. Here a memorial for the Military Police, kenpeitai, which was infamous for its role in the suppression of politicial opposition and independence movements in the colonies, above all in Korea.")
.JPG "On the shrine precincts, there are many sub-memorials for special groups of war dead. Here a memorial for the navy.")
.JPG "Justice Radha Binod Pal provided a dissenting judgement in the International Military Tribunal for the Far East's trials of Japanese war crimes committed during the second world war. While finding that 'the evidence is still overwhelming that atrocities were perpetrated by the members of the Japanese armed forces against the civilian population of some of the territories occupied by them as also against the prisoners of war', he produced a judgement questioning the legitimacy of the tribunal and its rulings. He concluded: \"I would hold that each and every one of the accused must be found not guilty of each and every one of the charges in the indictment and should be acquitted on all those charges.\" See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radha_Binod_Pal")
.JPG "Justice Radha Binod Pal provided a dissenting judgement in the International Military Tribunal for the Far East's trials of Japanese war crimes committed during the second world war. While finding that 'the evidence is still overwhelming that atrocities were perpetrated by the members of the Japanese armed forces against the civilian population of some of the territories occupied by them as also against the prisoners of war', he produced a judgement questioning the legitimacy of the tribunal and its rulings. He concluded: \"I would hold that each and every one of the accused must be found not guilty of each and every one of the charges in the indictment and should be acquitted on all those charges.\" See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radha_Binod_Pal")
.JPG "Justice Radha Binod Pal provided a dissenting judgement in the International Military Tribunal for the Far East's trials of Japanese war crimes committed during the second world war. While finding that 'the evidence is still overwhelming that atrocities were perpetrated by the members of the Japanese armed forces against the civilian population of some of the territories occupied by them as also against the prisoners of war', he produced a judgement questioning the legitimacy of the tribunal and its rulings. He concluded: \"I would hold that each and every one of the accused must be found not guilty of each and every one of the charges in the indictment and should be acquitted on all those charges.\" See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radha_Binod_Pal")
.JPG "The \"Chinreisha\" in the Yasukuni Shrine.
For more details see http://www.japanfocus.org/article.asp?id=293")
.JPG "The \"Chinreisha\" in the Yasukuni Shrine.
For more details see http://www.japanfocus.org/article.asp?id=293")
.JPG "Shrine visitors on 15 August, the day of the end of war in Asia (2005).")
.JPG "Shrine visitors on 15 August, the day of the end of war in Asia (2005).")
.JPG "Shrine visitors on 15 August, the day of the end of war in Asia (2005).")
 Torihada Minoru.JPG "Shrine visitors on 15 August, the day of the end of war in Asia (2005).
Here Torihada Minoru, a right-wing \"media star\" who likes to pose as Prime Minister Tojo Hideki, the prime minister during most of the war years (1941-44).")
.JPG "Torihada Minoru, a right-wing \"media star\" who likes to pose as Prime Minister Tojo Hideki, the prime minister during most of the war years (1941-44).
For Torihada, an excentric actor, see his homepage http://www.torihada.com/intro.htm")
.JPG "Shrine visitors on 15 August, the day of the end of war in Asia (2005).
Here Torihada Minoru, a right-wing \"media star\" who likes to pose as Prime Minister Tojo Hideki, the prime minister during most of the war years (1941-44).")
.JPG "Shrine visitors on 15 August, the day of the end of war in Asia (2005).
Notwithstanding the heat, in 2005 more than 200.000 people visited the Shrine.")
.JPG "Shrine visitors on 15 August, the day of the end of war in Asia (2005).")
.JPG "Shrine visitors on 15 August, the day of the end of war in Asia (2005).")
.JPG "Shrine visitors on 15 August, the day of the end of war in Asia (2005).")
.JPG "Shrine visitors on 15 August, the day of the end of war in Asia (2005).")
.JPG "Shrine visitors on 15 August, the day of the end of war in Asia (2005).
Here again the military nostalgics posing in various wartime uniforms with (real) swords and (faked) rifles.")
.JPG "Here again the military nostalgics posing in various wartime uniforms with (real) swords and (faked) rifles.")
.JPG "Here again the military nostalgics posing in various wartime uniforms with (real) swords and (faked) rifles.")
.JPG "Here again the military nostalgics posing in various wartime uniforms with (real) swords and (faked) rifles.")
.JPG "Here again the military nostalgics posing in various wartime uniforms with (real) swords and (faked) rifles.")
.JPG "Shrine visitors on 15 August, the day of the end of war in Asia (2005).
The obligatory memory photograph.")
.JPG "Shrine visitors on 15 August, the day of the end of war in Asia (2005), lining up in front of the main hall.
Notwithstanding the heat, in 2005 more than 200.000 people visited the Shrine.")
.JPG "Shrine visitors on 15 August, the day of the end of war in Asia (2005), lining up in front of the main hall.
Notwithstanding the heat, in 2005 more than 200.000 people visited the Shrine.")
.JPG "Shrine visitors on 15 August.")