shuji__matsuda@hotmail.com (shuji matsuda) wrote in message news:<bdif2g$tfg48$1@ID-37799.news.dfncis.de>...
> Japan started to "change" the attitude two days after the San Fransico
> treaty came into force (on Apr 30, 1952), by passing the law to protect
> the family of war dead or injured.  On Aug 1 1953, the law was modified
> and now became applicable to those who were executed by Tokyo and other
> tribunals.  The Japanese law does not discriminate those who were tried
> in war tribunals regardless of their Class (A, B or C).
> 
> Since Yasukuni Shrine has no way of knowing the names of entire two 
> million people,  the government (now the Ministry of Health and Labor,
> then the ministry of Health) sent the name cards to Yasukuni, which was
> continued until 1971.  Yasukuni began to enshrine BC defendants in 1959,
> and decided to enshrine Class A people in 1966.  Yasukuni did not enshrine
> them because the nationalization of Yasukuni might happen in near future.
> Because the law, discussed from 1969 to 1974, did not pass, Yasukuni
> finally enshrined them in 1978.
 
And Japanese prime-ministers, including the current one, continue to 
visit and pay respect in a shrine where war criminals are enshrined.
This, in a country still considered coy about their past wrongs, and
glass eyed new generations cry Why are we targeted for sins of our
fathers.