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> "min10011" <min10011@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > To USAOL: Most people know that war criminals are not the only ones
> > enshrined at Yasukuni.
>
> I totally disagree with your statement. This issue is argued almost
> constantly in the Korean, China and
> Japan NGs and ALWAYS there are posters who are not aware of this fact.
> It is to your credit that you do know this.

That sounds like another exaggeration.  I have not read anyone claim that
Yasukuni honors *specifically and only* war criminals.  Right away the
entire content of such a post would have to be considered rubbish.

> >  However, the VAST majority are IJA soldiers from
> > WW2.  It should reveal something to you of Japan's gradually shifting
> > attitudes about the war that the war criminals were enshrined long after
> the
> > war's end.
> >
> When were they enshrined?

1978.

> > > Yasukuni also has a shrine dedicated for all the war victims
regardless
> of
> > > the affiliation.  This is probably hard to understand for people with
> > > different cultural backgrounds.
> >
> > That contradiction is not hard to understand if one sees Japan as a
> national
> > case of passive-aggressive personality disorder.
> >
>
> Is it really? Do you know that at the United States Military Academy at
West
> Point New York
> (US Army Officer's School) there is a memorial dedicated to the North
> Vietnamese Soldier?
> I find a correlation here with the memorial for the North Korean spies in
> Japan that Matsuda mentioned.
>

What?  You cannot be that stupid.  West Point does not memorialize the
remains of Class A war criminals.  End of your comparison.