"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.

>  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?

> > 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.